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"Miss Sarah Bain, a photographer in Whitechapel, is an independent woman with dark secrets. In the privacy of her studio, she supplements her meager income by taking illicit "boudoir photographs" of the town's local ladies of the night. But when two of her models are found gruesomely murdered within weeks of one another, Sarah begins to suspect it's more than mere coincidence. Teamed with a motley crew of friends--including a street urchin, a gay...
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Explores the lives of the five women Jack the Ripper murdered--Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Mary Jane, and Catherine--fighting back against the untruth perpetuated by newspapers that "the Ripper" only preyed on prostitutes. Explores the historical context of each of the women's lives and what it was like to be a woman in the Victorian Age in England.
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Hired by wealthy banker, Sir Gerald Mariner, to find his missing son, photographer and private eye Sarah Bain must figure out if the kidnapping is a cover-up for murder, especially when the case intertwines with her search for her father who disappeared 20 years earlier.
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"A reinterpretation of Jack the Ripper with a supernatural touch . . . a convincing portrait of London's seamier side and a neat twist of an ending." —Kirkus Reviews
London's East End, 1888: When darkness falls, terror begins . . .
The foggy streets of London's Whitechapel district have become a nocturnal hunting ground for Jack the Ripper, and no woman is safe. Flower girl Constance Piper is not immune to