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Missis Banting vmeste s muzhem otkryvaet dokhodnyĭ dom, i ponachalu dela idut iz ruk von plokho. No cherez kakoe-to vremi͡a u Bantingov poi͡avli͡aetsi͡a novyĭ arendator: mister Slut, vezhlivyĭ i vospitannyĭ molodoĭ chelovek, gotovyĭ shchedro platitʹ za komnaty. Pravda, u nego estʹ svoi strannosti: on do fanatizma religiozen, postoi͡anno kuda-to ischezaet po nocham, a potom provodit nekie tainstvennye ėksperimenty.Mezh tem po vsemu Londonu raznosi͡atsi͡a slukhi o seriĭnom ubiĭt͡se. Zhestokiĭ manʹi͡ak ubivaet molodykh zhenshchin i ostavli͡aet na telakh zhertv kroshechnye klochki bumagi s nadpisʹi͡u 'Mstitelʹ'. Polit͡seĭskie patrulirui͡ut ulit͡sy dnem i nochʹi͡u, no nikak ne mogut vyĭti na ego sled.Postepenno missis Banting nachinaet podozrevatʹ, chto ikh zhilet͡s mozhet bytʹ ne tem, za kogo sebi͡a vydaet…

Mrs. Bunting opens an apartment building with her husband, and at first things go very badly. But after a while, the Buntings have a new tenant: Mr. Sleuth, a polite and well-mannered young man who is ready to pay handsomely for rooms. However, he has his own oddities: he is fanatically religious, constantly disappears somewhere at night, and then conducts some mysterious experiments.Meanwhile, rumors of a serial killer are spreading all over London. A violent maniac kills young women and leaves tiny pieces of paper with the inscription "Avenger" on the bodies of the victims. The police patrol the streets day and night, but they can't get on his trail in any way.Gradually, Mrs. Bunting begins to suspect that their tenant may not be who he claims to be…