Cora returns home and tells her sister everything. She also sees the poor woman’s things, among which there is an envelope addressed to Alice Redmayne in Highbury inside which there is a pendant. Cat sends her to find out what has happened, and she learns that a woman has been murdered, and she goes as far as going to the mortuary where she sees the body. That day Cora wakes up to see the police in tumult. We know that one of the police officers Ned is sweet on Cat, but she feel responsible for her family, so she can’t be bothered. Her mother died when she gave birth to her youngest son, and Cat was forced to stay to help her father raise the boys instead of finding a man to marry. In this case we meet Cora, a sixteen-year-old girl, who lives with her four brothers, her sister Cat, and her father at the police station since her widowed father is a policeman. Emma decides not to tell anything to Marie, who is determined to leave.Ī year later, August 1888, the action takes place in London. Marie and Emma go upstairs, and Marie decides to have a look at Bea’s things, and it is in one drawer that Emma finds a letter with the name Alice Redmayne and an address in Highbury, London. They discover that the victim is another prostitute Bea, and Madame Yvette, the brothel’s owner, orders the body to be thrown into the sea as she won’t be missed and she doesn’t want her establishment to be linked to a murder. Emma ignores her and alerts the men about the murder.
Marie is furious because she fears Emma has called attention from the man, and they will be the next victims.
Emma calls to him, shouting murder, and the man flees. It is a brothel where we see two new characters: Emma and Marie, two prostitutes, who see a man murdering a woman in the street. We know that Mary Jane Kelly was the last victim of Jack the Ripper on November 9, 1888. When one of the tenants, Miss Kelly, doesn’t answer, he peeks through the window to find a terrible view of flesh and blood in the bed. The prologue starts in November 1888 when Tom Bowyer, a man who demands the rent from his boss’s tenants. The novel introduces some new characters that are the conductors of the plot and the events. I started this book, thinking that I wouldn’t find much interest in it as I have read a lot about Jack the Ripper and his murders.
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