"The Lodger" by Marie Belloc Lowndes

"The Lodger" is an acknowledged classic of its kind. This spine-chilling mystery is a psychological study which concerns itself with the question "Why?" rather than "Who?".

From the very first moment that Mr. Sleuth rents rooms in Mr. and Mrs. Bunting's lodging house we know that he is the Ripper. Yet the story is so skillfully told that the reader is held breathless throughout.

Why does Mr. Sleuth, obviously a gentleman, rent lodgings suitable only for the poor? Why does he turn all the pictures to the wall? Why does a man so gentle strike terror in the heart of Mrs. Bunting?

As murder after murder is committed in panic-stricken London, these and many more questions will hold you spellbound until you have turned the last page of "the best book about murder written by any living author." 

Pocket Book Edition, 1940. Good condition, cover slightly worn and all pages yellowed as expected for a paperback book that is 86 years old

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