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From Publishers Weekly
Rendering the belching chimneys, puzzled bobbies and bewhiskered worthies of Victorian London in brooding b&w panels, Geary revisits the legend of Jack the Ripper in this stylish graphical novel. On the one hand, this is a 19th-century police procedural: in examining the brutal murders of five prostitutes in London's Whitechapel district in 1888, Geary recreates the scene of each gruesomely surgical murder, annotating the evidence, the forensic procedures of the time (some theories held that an image of the murderer remained affixed to the victim's retina) and the eerily conflicting testimony of witnesses. On the other hand, it's a deadpan pulp narrative in the form of a trade comic book in which Geary's haunting drawings unite seamlessly with his moody, well-researched text. As the atrocities mount, the story tracks the public hysteria surrounding the murders, including journalistic excess and rising anti-Semitism. Geary doesn't try to identify "Saucy Jacky." Instead, he taps the legend's powerful mystery and, in the process, the period's social strictures and hypocrisies.
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Midwest Book Review
Geary's graphic novel tells of the mystery and investigation of a Victorian murderer, using black and white illustrations and tasteful displays to recount the Ripper modus operandi and legend. Geary's story will satisfy fans of the graphic novel format who appreciate seeing detective work illustrated. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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A SHOCKING MURDER ON THE EAST END: I'M TOLD THAT THE BODY OF A WOMAN WAS FOUND THIS MORNING IN A SQUALID ALLEY-WAY OF THE WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT... MUTILATED IN A MOST HORRIFYING MANNER ~ Read the first page New!
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