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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Frightened Man
Kenneth M. Cameron · 288 pages
Veteran of the American Civil War, failed husband, ex-lawman now turned novelist Denton is an uncomforotable outsider in class-ridden turn-of-the-century England. But he is about to be plunged into the dark heart of a society where privilege and propriety hide unspeakable horrors.
The Harvest Man
Alex Grecian · 400 pages
With Jack the Ripper on the loose and the emergence of a new serial killer called the Harvest Man, who carves people's faces off their skulls, Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith enlists the help of a criminal network to stop them.
The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
Peter Ackroyd · 261 pages
Published in England as Dan Leno and the Limehouse golem
From Hell
Alan Moore · 576 pages
FROM HELL is the story of Jack the Ripper, perhaps the most infamous man in the annals of murder. Detailing the events leading up to the Whitechapel killings and the cover-up that followed, FROM HELL is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century. The serialized story, presented in its entirety in this volume, has garnered widespread attention fr
Ripper
Amy Carol Reeves
“I felt hot breath on my neck, and, horrified, I knew that he stood behind me . . .” It’s 1888, and after her mother’s sudden death, Abbie is sent to live with her grandmother in a posh London neighborhood. When she begins volunteering at Whitechapel Hospital, Abbie finds she has a passion for helping the abused and sickly women there. But within days, patients begin turning up murdered at t
The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper: In His Own Words--The Confession of the World's Most Infamous Killer
James Carnac · 320 pages
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer · 352 pages
The Infidel Stain
M.J. Carter · 470 pages
"Blake and Avery return in the stunning sequel to M. J. Carter's lauded fiction debut, The Strangler Vine. London, 1841. Returned from their adventures in India, Jeremiah Blake and William Avery have both had their difficulties adapting to life in Victorian England. Moreover, time and distance have weakened the close bond between them, forged in the jungles of India. Then a shocking series of murd
Whitechapel: The Final Stand Of Sherlock Holmes
Bernard Schaffer · 378 pages
The Pleasures of Men
Kate Williams · 401 pages
Spitalfields, 1840. Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London's East End. She has few companions and little to occupy the days beyond her own colourful imagination.
Hunting Prince Dracula
Kerri Maniscalco · 434 pages
In this hotly anticipated sequel to the haunting #1 bestseller Stalking Jack the Ripper,bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. Could it be a copycat killer ... or has the depraved prince been brought back to life? Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but
Death in the Devil's Acre
Anne Perry · 267 pages
The Devil is certainly at work in the dark streets of the slums of Victorian London—and Charlotte and Thomas Pitt must stop a killer before he strikes again A serial killer is loose in the slums of Devil’s Acre. The murders are brutal, but it is the killer’s grizzly signature that shocks even Inspector Thomas Pitt, no stranger to death and violent crime. The victims are stabbed and sexually mu
Murder as a Fine Art
David Morrell · 358 pages
"Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir, 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater', is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier...Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives." --inside front cover.
A Murderous Relation
Deanna Raybourn · 320 pages
The Devious Dr. Jekyll
Viola Carr · 447 pages
Crime scene physician Dr. Eliza Jekyll, daughter of the infamous Henry, tries to balance her newfound fame with the dangerous secret of her diabolical other self, Lizzie Hyde, while investigating a bizarre crime with the mercurial Captain Remy Lafayette.
Revelation
C.J. Sansom · 655 pages
The first three Shardlake mysteries have won over critics and readers alike. In Revelation, Sansom's newest book in the series, the year is 1543 and King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, a woman sympathetic to reform, whom he wants for his sixth wife- much to the dismay of Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court. Meanwhile, Matthew Shardlake is working to defend a
Anno Dracula
Kim Newman · 416 pages
Londres 1888. Depuis que Dracula a épousé la reine Victoria, la terreur règne sur la capitale. Sous l'influence du sulfureux comte, les citoyens sont de plus en plus nombreux à rejoindre les rangs des vampires, toujours plus puissants, et il ne fait pas bon être simple mortel. Mais la riposte ne se fait pas attendre. Dans les sinistres ruelles de Whitechapel, des prostituées vampires se font assas
Mycroft and Sherlock (MYCROFT HOLMES)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · 416 pages
Savage
Richard Laymon · 352 pages
A teenage boy witnesses Jack the Ripper's last brutal murder and chases the murderer across the sea to New York City, then across the American West.
What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper
Paula Marantz Cohen
The Solitary House
Lynn Shepherd · 340 pages
Summoned to the offices of Victorian London's most powerful and dangerous solicitors, disgraced police officer turned independent detective Charles Maddox turns to his famous but aging investigator uncle to identify who has been sending threatening letters to a client.