The Lodger (Summarized Edition)

The Lodger refashions the Ripper myth into domestic terror. When the cash-strapped Buntings let a room to the reserved Mr. Sleuth, a series of 'Avenger' murders in fog-bound London creeps toward their doorstep. Lowndes sustains dread through tight focalization—chiefly Mrs. Bunting's anxious gaze—measured rhythms, and scrupulous detail. An heir to sensation fiction and a precursor to psychological ...