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The Ripper's Apprentice
On sale
14th July 2013
Price: £7.99
In the slum alleys of Lambeth in 1891 a sinister silk-hatted figure lurks in the shadows – but trade is there for the taking and a girl must make a living. Now, one after another, the girls who work the Waterloo Road wake in the morning to feel the slow agony of the most vicious of poisons . . . victims of the man called Fred.
The police have only a string of ‘catch me if you can’ letters to taunt them, whilea whole mailing list of Victorian worthies find demands for money with menaces in their mail.
Inspector Swain investigates . . .
‘Original story told in a highly individual manner’ Times Literary Supplement
The police have only a string of ‘catch me if you can’ letters to taunt them, whilea whole mailing list of Victorian worthies find demands for money with menaces in their mail.
Inspector Swain investigates . . .
‘Original story told in a highly individual manner’ Times Literary Supplement
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