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The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper: In His Own Words--The Confession of the World's Most Infamous Killer

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I, Ripper

Stephen Hunter · 309 pages

"The electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestseller Stephen Hunter takes you deep inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer of all time - Jack the Ripper"--Publisher.

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Hyde

Daniel Levine, Robert Louis Stevenson · 416 pages

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer · 352 pages

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Dear Killer

Katherine Ewell · 359 pages

"Kit, a seventeen-year-old moral nihilist serial killer, chooses who to kill based on anonymous letters left in a secret mailbox, while simultaneously maintaining a close relationship with the young detective in charge of the murder cases"--

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The Cleaner

Paul Cleave · 407 pages

Three-letter word for omniscient being, middle letter 0 ... Joe. After all, Joe is in control of everything in his simple life, including both his day job at the police department and his 'night work'. Nor is he bothered by the daily news reports of the Christchurch Carver, who, they say, murdered seven women. But Joe knows the Carver only killed six. He knows that for a fact. And Joe is going to

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Dexter Is Dead

Jeff Lindsay · 200 pages

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Hidden Bodies

Caroline Kepnes · 448 pages

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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

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Suskind · 272 pages

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors

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Random

Craig Robertson · 368 pages

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Mayhem

Sarah Pinborough · 343 pages

"Already frustrated in their attempts to capture serial murderer Jack the Ripper, the detectives of Scotland Yard are suddenly confronted with a new monster, dubbed the Torso Killer for his habit of leaving behind neatly wrapped parcels of his victims' body parts, minus the heads. With the terrible increase in mutilated corpses to examine, the highly regarded police surgeon Dr. Thomas Bond has los

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Victorian Psycho

Virginia Feito · 206 pages

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The Killer Inside Me

Jim Thompson · 224 pages

Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he's a little slow and a little boring. But, then, most people don't know about the sickness--the sickness that almost got Lou put away when he was younger. The sickness that is about to surface again.

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The Lodger

Marie Belloc Lowndes, Elyssa Warkentin · 224 pages

The Lodger is the first known novelization of the Jack the Ripper story. It follows the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, a maid and butler. An eccentric lodger, Mr. Sleuth, arrives at their lodging-house just as a wave of horrific murders begins to sweep London. The Buntings become engrossed in the newspaper sensationalism as well the detailed accounts of their young friend, a Scotland Yard detectiv

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The Alienist

Caleb Carr · 534 pages

The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels. Th

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The Convictions of John Delahunt

Andrew Hughes · 348 pages

When the brutal murder of a young boy raises a public outcry in 1841 Dublin, the killer, a student with ties to Dublin Castle, recounts his dark underworld story while waiting for his execution.

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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.

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The Angel of the Crows

Katherine Addison · 448 pages

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The 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.

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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

Michael Dibdin · 72 pages

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. In this story, the great detective returns to hunt for Jack the Ripper.

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The Return of Moriarty

John Gardner · 345 pages

What really happened in Switzerland between Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in 1891? And why is Holmes, now in London at 221B Baker Street, curiously uncooperative with Scotland Yard's inquiries? Furthermore, why has Moriarty planned a grand meeting with the international crime syndicate? These are the questions that make up the larger mystery of the sinister Professor Moriarty's return.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 138 pages

Mr. Gabriel Utterson is a serious, austere lawyer living a humdrum life in Victorian London. Yet there is a strange clause in his friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll's will: should he disappear for more than 3 months, everything will be inherited by Hyde. But after Edward Hyde's darker nature is revealed one dark winters night, Mr. Utterson begins to investigate the connection between the two men, and finds

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