A sadistic murderer known only as "Fred," who specializes in poisoning prostitutes, offers to unravel his latest crime for a large sum of money, a crime that threatens the reputation of one of Victorian England's finest

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In Jekyll, Alias Hyde, Thomas's invented Inspector Swain failed to enhance Stevenson's classic. Swain's appearance here also disappoints. The truth in this tale about a poisoner who roamed London's Lambeth area in 1891-92, giving "medicine" to prostitutes and dooming them to slow, agonizing deaths, is more interesting than the fiction. Based on well-researched historic records, Thomas's version of the madman hoping to rival Jack the Ripper is, unfortunately, flawed by its very accuracy. The information identifies him early on, leaving few surprises for the reader. Also distracting are pages sagging with linguistic excesses, describing the progress of Swain's romance with his landlady's daughter as she grows from a child to a nubile teenager.
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