The Lodger: A Tale of the London Fog

An elderly couple living in Victorian London struggle against despair as their small resources dwindle. When a mysterious gentleman answers their advertisement for a lodger, they celebrate. But as women begin dying at the hands of The Avenger, they start to suspect something too horrific for words. When Lowndes wrote The Lodger, it was an immediate best-seller. It became the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's first talking motion picture.