The Ripperologists

De: John Gaspard

Narrado por: Steve Hendrickson

“For tonight, you can call me Jack.”

When a copycat serial killer begins recreating Jack the Ripper’s 1888 murder spree, two competing experts are forced to work together to stop him.

Despite their well-documented antagonism, famous mystery novelist Barbara Thomas is paired with legendary Ripperologist Henry McHugh as they race against time to try to get one step ahead of the crazed killer.

What they don’t understand - until it’s almost too late - is that his murderous spree is far more personal than either of them ever suspected.

©2009 John Gaspard (P)2020 Audio Visceral Productions

I love John Gaspard books

Gaspard's characters are all intelligent, human, and in many cases quirky. This book is as good as his books about magicians, and like those books his characters are people we would enjoy knowing.

The characters in this book are all Jack the Ripper experts. One is an older, retired Scotland Yard policeman, whose book is considered the definitive Jack the Ripper textbook. The other is a young woman who writes popular mysteries, who took a year off writing those books to do her own research into who Jack the Ripper really is. (Ok, not the Duke of Clarence, but just as hilarious). These two authors are called to help predict, if not identify a new Jack the Ripper copycat. While their knowledge of the original Ripper cases can predict when the next murder will happen, they cannot seem to identify the modern killer.

This is a wonderful book on many levels, but for me it is Gaspard's characters, the modern policeman, the ancient and often wise retired Scotland Yard detective and the lady novelist whose identification of the historical Jack is hilarious even to those of us who are not Ripper experts.