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Pub. Date
2017.
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Supplementing her meager income by shooting illicit "boudoir photographs" of the local ladies of the night, photographer Miss Sara Bain and her motley crew of friends are embroiled in the crime of the century when two of her clients are murdered by Jack the Ripper.
Author
Series
A treasury of Victorian murder volume 2
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
The hunt for Jack the Ripper, the killer of five prostitutes, a sensation of the day. Lots of period detail accompanied by drawings. The murders occurred in London in 1888.
3) Lost
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
In this third novel by the acclaimed bestselling author of "Wicked" and "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister", famed children's book author Winifred Rudge travels to London to research a book about a woman who is being haunted by Jack the Ripper. Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost...
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Pub. Date
2021
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"Joanna and the Watsons are called in by the Whitechapel Playhouse to find Pretty Penny, a lovely young actress who has gone missing without reason or notice. While on their search, the trio is asked by Scotland Yard to join in the hunt for a vicious murderer whose method resembles that of Jack the Ripper. It soon becomes clear that The Ripper has reemerged after a 28-year absence and is once again murdering young prostitutes in Whitechapel. Following...
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With Jack the Ripper on the loose and the emergence of a new serial killer called the Harvest Man, who carves people's faces off their skulls, Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith enlists the help of a criminal network to stop them.
A reimagining of Jack the Ripper's personal story intertwines his 1888 murders of five prostitutes with the investigation of an Irish journalist who is caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse against a backdrop of London's seamy...
6) Ripper
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Adopted by famous Pinkerton Agency Detective Hawking in 1895 New York, fourteen-year-old Carver Young hopes to find his birth father, but when he becomes involved in the pursuit of notorious killer Jack the Ripper, Carver discovers that finding the truth can be worse than ignorance.
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Series
Pub. Date
2000
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Kathryn Ardleigh is becoming accustomed to the high-society circles of her recently Lorded husband Charles Sheridan. And she has found a kindred spirit in Jennie Jerome Churchill, whose carefree lifestyle has made her a frequent topic in the tabloids. But there is a more serious scandal threatening Jennie-and the political future of her son Winston. She is being blackmailed by someone who has made a heinous accusation-someone who claims to have proof...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in Londons seamy Whitechapel District. He did not just kill--he ripped with a butchers glee--and then, after the particularly gruesome slaying of Mary Jane Kelly, he disappeared. For 127 years, Jack has haunted the dark corners of our imagination, the paradigm of the psychotic killer. We remember him not only for his crimes, but because, despite one of the biggest dragnets in London...
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Pub. Date
2020
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"In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia, except for a few things: Angels can Fall, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent. Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Sherlock Holmes is unwavering in his quest to capture the killer responsible for terrifying London's East End. When Holmes is wounded in Whitechapel during an attempt to catch the monster, the press launches its own investigation, questioning the detective's role in the crimes he is struggling to prevent. Stripped of his credibility, Holmes is left with no choice but to break every rule to find the madman.
12) Sacred evil
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When the body of an aspiring starlet is discovered between two of Manhattan's oldest graveyards, Detective Jude Crosby goes up against a supernatural killer who is recreating Jack the Ripper's gruesome work and turns to paranormal investigator Whitney Trement for help in solving this sinister case.
Author
Series
Denton mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
General Denton, an expatriate U.S. Civil War veteran and former frontier sheriff, teams up with social worker Janet Striker in 1900 London to investigate the brutal murder of prostitute Stella Minter and hunt down what might be the long-gone Jack the Ripper.
Author
Pub. Date
1960
Description
"London is in the grip of a terrifying serial killer who is murdering women in Whitechapel in a manner reminiscent of the Jack the Ripper slayings 70 years earlier. Against this backdrop, Gerard Sorme, a lonely young Londoner, is at work on his first novel, in which he intends to express his belief in the meaninglessness of life. His own life begins to change in unexpected ways when he begins an intimate friendship with Austin Nunne, a wealthy and...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Enero, 1889. Valparaíso es la ciudad más vertiginosa y cosmopolita de Sudamérica. Vapores de todo el mundo traen al puerto los adelantos del siglo, pero también sus amenazas y sombras. En el corazón de esta sociedad efervescente, una serie de atroces y misteriosos crímenes parecen indicar que el mal ha desembarcado en la ciudad."--Page 4 of cover.
January, 1889. Valparaíso is the most dynamic and cosmopolitan city in South America. The world...
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"A new anthology from Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler, centered around the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper. A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL. Of all the real-life serial killers whose gruesome deeds have splashed across headlines throughout human history, few have reached the near-mythical status of Jack the Ripper. Terrorizing the world with a rash of violent murders in London's East End...
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