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Marie Belloc Lowndes Celebrated Suspense Story . . . A knock at the door and a mysterious stranger enters the lives of a private, unassuming English couple, their daughter and her beau, a hard-driven investigator for the British police, pulling them into a maelstrom of suspicion and terror. In the neighborhood, a mysterious series of Ripper-like murders are occurring, the only clues being mysterious triangular calling-cards bearing the name -- "The Avenger" -- left on the bodies of the victims. Who is he? The police are at a loss; Whitechapel is in an uproar; neighbors are suspicious of neighbors; fear runs rampant. . . . The first of many films to bear the stamp of his unmistakable genius, Sir Alfred Hitchcock transformed Marie Belloc Lowndes' thrilling 1913 novel of murder, mystery and intrigue into his first masterpiece, a British film from 1927 that would gain the director international acclaim and establish a pattern Hitchcock would return to over and over throughout his extensive cinematic career. This, the first novel based on the Jack the Ripper killings, is accompanied by images from Hitchcock's silent film and extensive Appendices. It is the second volume in a series of Silent-Photoplay Editions based upon famous films of the silent era.