# The Lodger — Character guide

> Key figures in The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes.

- [Mrs. Bunting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lodger_se/characters/mrs_bunting.md): Mrs. Bunting runs the Marylebone lodging house where she and her husband scrape by on dwindling savings, her neat black dress and plain cuffs betraying years of careful servitude. When a generous, eccentric lodger takes 
- [Mr. Sleuth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lodger_se/characters/mr_sleuth.md): Mr. Sleuth arrives at the Buntings' door as an ideal tenant: punctual, generous with his sovereigns, undemanding, and content to spend his days poring over Cruden's Concordance and the Old Testament. Yet he creeps out in
- [Daisy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lodger_se/characters/daisy.md): Daisy works away as a servant but returns to her parents' lodging house with girlish energy, pestering her stepmother for a peep at the mysterious lodger and drawing the attentions of Joe Chandler, the young detective wh
- [Joe Chandler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lodger_se/characters/joe_chandler.md): Joe Chandler is a slow, sure young man from the Yard who takes his work seriously and his courtship of Daisy Bunting even more so, haunting the Buntings' sitting-room with a mix of professional curiosity and hopeful devo
- [Mr. Bunting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lodger_se/characters/mr_bunting.md): Robert Bunting once kept a gentleman's wardrobe and now keeps a dwindling fire, his clean-shaven respectability a thin shield against the hunger and cold creeping into the Marylebone house. He reads the Avenger murders a
- [The Avenger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lodger_se/characters/the_avenger.md): The Avenger is less a person than a pressure—a name scrawled on grey paper and pinned to the dead, a series of murders that have all of London reading columns and locking doors. The killer's victims haunt Mrs. Bunting's 
- [Aunt Margaret](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lodger_se/characters/aunt_margaret.md): Daisy's aunt, who occasionally appears in family discussions.
- [Charles Peace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lodger_se/characters/charles_peace.md): A historical murderer mentioned as a comparison to the Avenger.
- [Sir John Burney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lodger_se/characters/sir_john_burney.md): A police official involved in the Avenger investigation.
- [Mr. Hopkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lodger_se/characters/mr_hopkins.md): A local tradesman or acquaintance of the Buntings.

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