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Breathless and painstakingly researched, this is a stunning debut mystery in which Sherlock Holmes unmasks Jack the Ripper. Lyndsay Faye perfectly captures all the color and syntax of Conan Doyle’s distinctive nineteenth-century London.

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Like the heroine of the novel she adores, Jane Steele suffers cruelly at the hands of her aunt and schoolmaster. And like Jane Eyre, they call her wicked - but in her case, she fears the accusation is true. When she flees, she leaves behind the corpses of her tormentors. A fugitive navigating London's underbelly, Jane rights wrongs on behalf of the have-nots whilst avoiding the noose. Until an advertisement catches her eye.

The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and 50,000 dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a Black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel. But her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be an all-Black hotel in a Jim Crow city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a White woman on the premises. She understands their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers.

Timothy Wilde er "kobberstjerne" i New Yorks nydannede politikorps i 1840'erne. Timothy har arbejdet der i et halvt år, da han kommer på sporet af en grusomt brutal bande, der kalder sig for 'Blackbirders'. Banden kidnapper uskyldige, frie sorte new yorkere for at saelge dem som slaver til plantageejere i Sydstaterne. Lucy Adams er ung og smuk og da hun rystet anmelder at hendes søster af blandet race og hendes lille nevø er blevet kidnappet, får hun Timothy sat på sagen.

Vi befinder os i New York i 1845. Byens allerførste politistyrke ser dagens lys og den unge bartender Timothy Wilde bliver ad kringlede veje og meget modvilligt tilknyttet dette nye korps. Han saettes til at patruljere i Gotham, byens farligste slum, i gyderne ved Five Points på det allersydligste Manhattan, hvor de fattige horder af indvandrere myldrer til og slår sig ned. En sen nat finder Timothy på sin runde en tiårige pige, der bogstavelig talt er smurt ind i blod. Hun rabler om barnemord og massegrave oppe i det vilde skovområde nord for 23rd Street. Men kan hun virkelig tale sandt?