go Back In Time To 1888. London Is Horrified By A Series Of Brutal Killings. Dead Prostitutes Are Turning Up All Over Whitechapel. But These Aren't The Only Murders To Perplex The Brains Of Scotland Yard. In Brighton, Another Body Is Discovered. It Falls To The Yard's Inspector Sholto Lestrade To Look Into These Killings.
publishers Weekly here's An Unlikely Novel: An Amusing Mystery About The Jack The Ripper Murders. Like The Other Lestrade Books (brigade, Etc.), This One Is Permeated With Sharp Historical Detail, Delightful Humor And Wordplay, Plus A Large Gallery Of Characters. Among Its Players Are, Of Course, Sherlock Holmes (the Epitome Of A Man Inches From Neurosis) And Dr. Watson (with The Unmistakable Stoop Of A Man Who Had Been Hit By A Jezail), Who Provide No Small Amount Of Comic Relief. Lestrade's Patience And Expertise Are Tested To The Fullest When He Inherits The Men And Caseload Of A Recently Deceased Inspector. Continuing Those Cases Takes Him To Rhadegund Hall, A Public School Where, By Chance, Young, Pregnant Maggie Hollis Is Discovered Drowned In A Laundry Tub. That Night, Back In London, The Mutilated Body Of Mary Ann Nichols, The First Of The Whitechapel Murder Victims, Is Found. Soon, Lestrade Is Investigating The Ripper Murders As Well As The Rising Body Count At Rhadegund Hall, And In Doing So The Long-suffering Inspector Must Contend With Both The Incompetence Of His Superiors (who Destroy Vital Evidence) And The Quirks Of The School's Masters. Despite The Distractions Of An Attractive Matron And Interference From Holmes, Lestrade Perseveres To The End--as Will Grateful Readers. (sept.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Lestrade and the Ripper: Lestrade Mystery Series, Volume VI (Trow, M. J. Sholto Lestrade Mystery Series, V. 6.)

Lestrade and the Ripper : a Gateway mystery

M. J. Trow

Regnery Publishing

Gateway Editions

LifeLine Press

United States, United States of America

Trow, M. J, Washington, DC, 1999

First American Edition, PT, 1999

VOLUME VI, 1999

Inspector Sholto Lestrade investigates murders by Jack the Ripper and other killers, but the rising body count is the least of his problems. The main problem is interference from bumbling Sherlock Holmes and his incompetent sidekick, Dr. Watson. By the author of Lestrade and the Deadly Game

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