Born on this day – Marie Belloc Lowndes:

Marie Belloc Lowndes

Writer

August 5, 1868 – November 14, 1947

Credits:

Books:

A Passing World (1948); And Call It Accident (1936); Another Man's Wife (1934); Before the Storm (1941); Bread of Deceit / aka Afterwards (1925); Cressida: No Mystery (1928); Diaries and Letters, 1911-47 (1971); Duchess Laura: Certain days of her life / aka The Duchess Intervenes (1929); Duchess Laura: Further Days of Her Life (1933); Edmond and Jules De Goncourt (1925); Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1938); From Out the Vasty Deep (1920); Good Old Anna (1915); H.R.H., the Prince of Wales (1898); His Most Gracious Majesty, King Edward VII (1901); I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia (1941); Jenny Newstead (1932); Letty Lynton / aka Dishonoured Lady (1931); Lizzie Borden (1939); Love and Hatred (1917); Love is a Flame (1932); Love's Revenge (1909); Mary Pechell (1912); Motive / aka Why it Happened (1938); Novels of Mystery (1933); One of Those Ways (1929); Out of the War? / aka The Gentleman Anonymous (1918); Reckless Angel (1939); Some Men and Women (1925); Studies in Love and Terror (1913); Studies in Wives (1910); The Art of Photography (1897); The Black Cap (1927); The Chianti Flask (1925); The Chink in the Armour / aka The House of Peril (1912); The Christine Diamond (1940); The Empress Eugenie (1938); The End of Her Honeymoon (1913); The Ghost Book (1926); The Heart of Penelope (1904); The Injured Lover / aka The Second Key (1936); The Key (1930); The Labours of Hercules (1943); The Lodger (1913); The Lonely House (1920); The Marriage Broker / aka Fortune of Bridget Malone (1937); The Merry Wives of Westminster (1946); The Net Is Cast (1933); The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women (1977); The Philosophy of the Marquise (1899); The Price of Admiralty (1915); The Pulse of Life (1909); The Reason Why (1932); The Red Cross Barge (1916); The Story of Ivy (1927); The Terriford Mystery (1924); The Uttermost Farthing (1908); The young Hilaire Belloc (1956); Thou Shalt Not Kill (1927); Told in Gallant Deeds (1917); Vanderlyn's Adventure / aka The House by the Sea (1932); What of the Night? (1943); What Really Happened (1926); What Timmy did (1921); When No Man Pursueth (1910); Where Love and Friendship Dwelt (1943); Who Rides On a Tiger (1935); Why Be Lonely? (1931); Why They Married (1923); With All John's Love (1930).

Movies and television:

Armchair Mystery Theatre (1965); Der Mieter (1967); Ivy (1947); Letty Lynton (1932); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Man in the Attic (1953); Shameful Behavior? (1926); Studio One (1953); Suspense (1952); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The House of Peril (1922); The Lodger (1944 / 2009); The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927); The Phantom Fiend (1932).

On this day in movie and book history - The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927); The Lodger (1927)

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,

written by Eliot Stannard, Alfred Hitchcock and Marie Belloc Lowndes,

based on the novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes,

was released in the United Kingdom on January 17, 1927.

Music by Ashley Irwin (for the 1999 release).

 

Cast:

Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen, Ivor Novello, Wallace Bosco, Daisy Campbell, Maudie Dunham, Reginald Gardiner, Eve Gray, Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville.

Recommended reading:

The Lodger

by Marie Belloc Lowndes.

Filmed as The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, (1927), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Published by Academy Chicago Publishers.

First published 1911, in the January edition of McClure's Magazine.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0897336046

ISBN-13: 978-0897336048

Description:

"One of the best suspense novels ever written." – The New York Times.

"This is a beautifully wrought novel of psychological suspense that should have a place on any mystery buff's shelf of classics." – Chicago Sun-Times.

This first class, highly-acclaimed thriller was published in 1914, more than two decades after the so-called Jack the Ripper murders, on which it is based, had occurred in Whitechapel, London. The murders – five in all – appeared to be the work of a woman-hating fanatic, someone who also must have had knowledge of anatomy, since the bodies were mutilated with surgical skill. 

Twenty years later, memories of these serial killings were still fresh in Londoners’ minds and the author brilliantly captures the sense of fear and horror which the murders evoked. Praise for this novel has withstood the test of time in England, America, and around the world. The Lodger has been adapted for the screen several times, most notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1926, his first film.