Lorna Ravers performance is a tour de force. Her dexterity shifting between accents is breathtaking. She creates the precise intensity, uncertainty, or sheer terror called for by each shocking situation. Ravers performance, combined with Lowndess literate, suspenseful plot, makes this must listening.AudioFile

Dealing with not only the psychology of The Avenger her version of Jack the Ripper but also with that of his landlady Lowndes creates an atmosphere of suspense, fear, and horror.Amazon.com

Matchless for excitement and artistry of writing, The Lodgertakes the reader into a tale of almost unbearable suspense.BookCrossing.com

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 horrific for words.

Marie Belloc Lowndes, the sister of the celebrated writer Hilaire Belloc, was herself a noted novelist and activist in her day. The Lodger was an immediate best-seller and became the basis for Alfred Hitchcocks first talking motion picture. In a later film version, Laird Cregar won an Oscar for portraying the title character.

Marie Belloc Lowndes, the sister of the celebrated writer Hillaire Belloc, was herself a noted novelist and activist in her day. She established her considerable reputation as a crime writer through her fictionalized account of the series of murders of prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888.

Lorna Raver has won AudioFile Earphones Awards for her readings of The Lodger and I Am Madame X. She is also an award-winning actress who has appeared on stage and in such television shows as NYPD Blue.