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Death at Whitechapel is part of the Robin Paige mystery series co-written by Bill Albert and his wife Susan Wittig Albert, and it is the one where the late-Victorian formula meets the most famous unsolved case in English crime history. Lord Charles Sheridan, an aristocratic amateur detective, and his American wife Kate, a novelist, are drawn into a scheme involving a Ripper survivor and a planned exhibition of forensic evidence.
The pleasures are the same ones the series provides through its run: careful research, period-appropriate dialogue, a sturdy sense of late-Victorian London geography. Eleanor Marx makes a brief appearance, which is the kind of decision that distinguishes a good period mystery from a great one. The Ripper material is handled with restraint.
Three stars. Recommended to Robin Paige fans and to readers who enjoy Anne Perry-style Victorian procedurals.
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