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In the autumn of 1888, a series of grisly murders took place in Whitechapel in London's East End, the Abyss, the Ghetto, the City of Eternal Night. The Whitechapel murderer, arguably the first of his kind, was never caught but the killings gave rise to the best-known pen-name in criminal history -Jack the Ripper. The Whitechapel killer was terrifyingly real but Jack was the creation of Fleet Street, the gallows humor of a newspaper hack whose sole...
2) Crimson rose
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Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 5
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March, 1587. Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburliane, with the incomparable Ned Alleyn in the title role, has opened at Rose Theatre. Yet the play is almost shut down on its opening night. For a member of the audience, Eleanor Merchant, lies dead, hit by a s musket ball fired from the stage. The man with his finger on the trigger? A bit-part palyer named William Shakespeare. Convinced of Shakespeare's innocence, Marlowe determines to find out...
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