The Lodger

Marie Adelaide Lowndes,(August 5, 1868 – November 14, 1947), was a prolific English novelist.She had a literary reputation for combining exciting incident with psychological interest. Her most famous novel, The Lodger, published in 1913 is based on the Jack the Ripper murders, and it is about a London family who suspects that their upstairs lodger is a mysterious killer known as "The Avenger." It has been adapted for the screen five different times; the first movie version was Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927).. The novel was the basis for five movie adaptions. The first was the silent film version The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927, followed by Maurice Elvey's in 1932, John Brahm's in 1944, Man in the Attic in 1953, and David Ondaatje's in 2009.