Sent to Christchurch, New Zealand to recover from a childhood case of severe pneumonia, she became very close friends with another girl, Pauline Parker. Reading Perry is a bit like reading Thackeray edited by Elmore Leonard.” –Booklist (starred review) LessĪnne Perry was born Juliet Hume on Octoin Blackheath, London. Each scene, each encounter takes on a many-layered resonance.” –The Providence Sunday Journal “A POWERHOUSE OF A HISTORY-MYSTERY. But none of them anticipate the horrors to be revealed. Among his few allies are his clever wife, Charlotte, and intrepid Gracie, the maid who can travel unremarked in Whitechapel. There he must work … More undercover investigating alleged anarchist plots. Instead of being praised for his key testimony, Pitt is removed from his station command and transferred to Whitechapel, one of the East End’s most dangerous slums. And in a packed Old Bailey courtroom, Superintendent Thomas Pitt’s testimony causes distinguished soldier John Adinett to be sentenced to hang for the inexplicable murder of a friend.
Description: THE WHITECHAPEL CONSPIRACY is “a beauty, brilliantly presented, ingeniously developed and packed with political implications that reverberate on every level of British society.” –The New York Times Book Review In 1892, the grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes by a killer dubbed Jack the Ripper remain a terrifying enigma.
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