The Lodger (1911)I had once sat at dinner next to a man who told me that a butler and lady’s maid, who had been in his parents’ service, had married, and set up a humble lodging-house. They were convinced Jack the Ripper had spent the night in their house before and after he had committed the most horrible of his murders. I told myself that this might form the core of a striking short story.The ingenious twist that Ms Belloc lowndes added to that story core is that her couple are on the brink of financial ruin and only the lucrative rent the lodger is paying is keeping them afloat. Thus, the drama of the story rests not just on the terror of having a ripper living in your house but on the temptation not to do the right thing. Little wonder that she expanded her initial story into a novel and that it has been adapted numerous times for radio (here with Peter Lorree as the lodger) and screen, including the greater silent Hitchcock version Like her younger brother, the great Catholic apologist Hillaire Belloc, Marie was a prolific writer on a variety of topics, but, like G. K. Chesterton, is today best remembered for this sort of crime fiction. And while Ripper stories became their own cottage industry, this was the first in the genre and remains one of the best, not least because of the moral quandary at its center. 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