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Prologue:

East London, September, 1888 



It was a bleak era in the colorful canvas of London’s history. Widespread poverty and insufficient job opportunities forced thousands into Common Lodging Houses, two hundred thirty-three in the district of Commercial Road alone. Such establishments provided communal lodgings for the over eight and-a-half thousand homeless vagrants that daily flocked to their…

A brilliant detective, a crazed killer, a mysterious couple, a handful of prostitutes…



Lives converge and history is altered as an entire city is plunged into an era of panic and terror. A ruthless killer ravages London, seizing its helpless prostitutes; murdering and mutilating their bodies before vanishing, untraced and unpunished.



In a time when lives hang in the balances, when murder is the…