by Marie Belloc Lowndes
bookshelves: winter-20142015, britain-england, london, look-behind-you, published-1913, under-1000-ratings, mystery-thriller, serial-killer Read from December 11, 2012 to January 04, 2015 Watch full film on youtubeStars: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron PalmerDescription: Somewhere in Londo...
I remember the old film, The Lodger, as being more intense and suspenseful than this.
Ok, ok, so I picked this up purely because I was staying in Whitechapel for a few days and felt compelled to read something connected with Jack the Ripper. And then five minutes into the story I realise it's set in a different part of London - more towards Baker Street than Whitechapel. Oh, well.......
At first it was really great but towards the end I felt that it dragged quite a bit, and the Buntings just got really annoying...and I just wanted to yell 'PLEASE JUST TALK WITH EACH OTHER!' at them...I know that lack of communication is a trope that gets used frequently but here it was simply to an...
With the premise of this book, I was really expecting more of a "thriller" from it. In my opnion, it really fell flat in that expectation. Was it a mystery? Yes, but barely..again, my opinion only. If I didn't have to read it for several challenges, I probably wouldn't have finished it.
A poor couple takes a lodger into their house, at the time the town is hounted by a serial killer. The couple slowly start to wonder if their lodger is that serial killer. Are they right or not?The tension is slowly built up and although we, readers, also suspect the lodger being the killer, we only...
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