While taking an evening stroll through one of London's most impoverished districts, author Bram Stoker spies a maddeningly familiar figure hurrying through the shadows. Little does he know that, only a few steps away, a vicious killer has claimed his first victim, a local prostitute. The crime spree of the century has begun-and the hapless writer is the prime suspect. Now, to clear his name, Stoker must enlist the aid of illustrious friends-including Walt Whitman, the wildly popular novelist Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, and Lady Jane Wilde, mother of the most notorious literary notable of the day-to hunt down the fiend who is taunting and terrorizing London and calling himself Jack the Ripper

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