THE JACK THE RIPPER WALKING TOUR MURDER (SIGNED)

Borowitz (Albert)

ISBN 10: 031243944X / ISBN 13: 9780312439446

Published by Joan Kahn/St. Martin's Press, 1986

About this Item

Hardback. SIGNED. Featuring Paul Prye, Columbia University professor and true crime enthusiast, and his wife Alice, art historian but a devotee of Agatha Christie, holidaying in London, from America, for the centennial of Jack the Ripper and about to embark on a walking tour of the Ripper sites - when one of the group is murdered. An engaging and educational novel. 228pp. 8vo. h/back. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ALBERT BOROWITZ. With tiny label to fpd, o/w F. in Nr. F. dw.

Seller Inventory # 20685

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE JACK THE RIPPER WALKING TOUR MURDER (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Joan Kahn/St. Martin's Press
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031243944X
• ISBN 13: 9780312439446
• Binding: Hardcover / Hardback
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: signed and inscribed by author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Jack the Ripper and Assoc.

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Synopsis

In London, 1988, while on a walking tour retracing the scenes of Jack the Ripper's slaughters one hundred years before, Paul Prye and his wife Alice find that one of their group has been murdered

Reviews

Paul Prye may make his living as professor of urban history at Columbia, but at heart he is mad about crime. So is his wife Alice, art history prof at NYU and wild about Agatha Christie. In 1988, they go to London to celebrate a most curious centenary: Jack the Ripper's bloody safari through the city's dark bypaths and dead ends. Prye retraces the maniac's sinister progress in the company of others similarly smitten, and as marvelous luck would have it, one of their group is murdered. Could it have been an accident, as others insist? Prye knows better (and he is seldom, if ever, wrong). The Yard agrees. Somewhere in the thickets lurks a new Ripper fixated on replicating his master's bloodbath. But Prye's analytic intelligence and Alice's intuitive antennae eventually end the nightmare in this pleasant and clever, if not particularly suspenseful, little nocturnal excursion. (March 31).
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