Marie Belloc Lowndes

In una Londra d'altri tempi, ma piovosa e crepuscolare come quella di oggi, un misterioso killer chiamato "il Vendicatore" si avventa sulle proprie vittime con il favore delle tenebre. Nessuno sa chi sia, nessuno lo sente arrivare - se non quando è ormai troppo tardi. I proprietari della...

Nancy Dampier, una giovane ragazza inglese, arriva a Parigi dopo aver trascorso tre settimane di luna di miele con John, un pittore inglese naturalizzato francese. La coppia ha deciso di restare qualche giorno all'hotel Saint Ange. Sfortunatamente, è l'anno dell'Esposizione universale...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A classic psychological thriller and early serial-killer novel, set in foggy Victorian London. A quiet, respectable London landlady begins to suspect her mysterious, reclusive lodger is responsible for the string of brutal "Ripper" murders terrorizing...

An elderly couple living in Victorian London struggle against despair as their small resources dwindle. When an eccentric and 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...

“But there is one chink in the chain armour of civilized communities. Society is conducted on the assumption that murder will not be committed.” (The Spectator) Married at 19 and already a widow at 25, English beauty Sylvia Bailey is managing to enjoy life on her own in Paris. She even...

Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes (née Belloc) was born in 1868. She had a distinguished and prolific literary career and 4 of her works were adapted (some several times) for film.

According to legend, in 1910, Marie Belloc Lowndes attended a London dinner party where a guest told her that his mother’s butler and cook claimed they had once rented rooms to Jack the Ripper, the notorious mass murderer. The idea for “The Lodger” was born. Mr. and Mrs. Bunting have sunk...

A quiet, enigmatic young woman called Laura Dousland is on trial for murder, accused of poisoning her elderly husband, Fordish Dousland....