![]() The wealthy Barker ( Fatal Enquiry, 2014, etc.) leaves his comfortable home, and the pair move into a room in Whitechapel, the poor London neighborhood where horrific murders and mutilations of prostitutes are spreading fear and tarnishing the reputation of Scotland Yard. Although he’s not popular with the Yard’s upper echelon, Barker agrees to work as Anderson’s assistant, and Llewelyn becomes a special constable. Because Anderson’s doctor has insisted he go away for a rest, he asks Barker to become a temporary member of Scotland Yard’s team, investigating what will soon be known as the Jack the Ripper murders. In 1888, two private inquiry agents become involved in one of Scotland Yard’s most infamous cases.Ĭyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, receive a visit from Robert Anderson, an old friend who’s just been appointed assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard and head of the CID. ![]()
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