She decides to start by volunteering at a settlement house in London’s East End, and while doing her charity work, sees how truly horrific the poverty is, all the while never dreaming of where her quest for answers might take her.Ĭover of From Whitechapel. When a young girl delivers an envelope to her, the return address marked as “From Whitechapel,” Alice’s journey to find her sister and discover answers to the questions she has about her past begins. Cora takes the letter and conceals it, though she is unsure of why, and this action will change her life forever.Īlice Redmayne, the daughter of a wealthy artist, lives the life of a society daughter in a posh London suburb, though the uncertainty of the fate of her older sister, Beatrice, who mysteriously left the family when Alice was a child, still haunts her. But there’s something else among the belongings of Martha Tabram that captures her attention: a crumpled-up letter addressed to a Miss Alice Redmayne. As Mary Jane frantically scavenges through the dead woman’s remaining possessions, Emma discovers a letter addressed to a Miss Alice Redmayne in London and takes it with her before Mary Jane can get her hands on it and heads for London, where she hopes she can hide.Ī year later, Cora Lee, the daughter of a constable who lives with her family in rooms above Commercial Street police station, decides to seize the day and take a look at something she has never seen before: a corpse. Emma witnesses the brutal murder of one of their coworkers…and the killer knows she has seen his face, for he has also seen hers. It all begins the previous summer in Calais, where prostitutes Emma Johnson and Mary Jane Kelly have found work for the summer.
In her novel From Whitechapel, Melanie Clegg deftly weaves these women’s stories together with the sordid events that occurred in Whitechapel during the autumn of 1888. Little do they know that the letter’s contents will take them into the heart of Whitechapel and bring some of them face to face with the killer himself. As Jack the Ripper holds London in the grip of the autumn of terror, three very different young women find themselves thrown together to solve the mystery of a letter that got into the wrong hands.
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