![]() ![]() She nabs it 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. As Mary Jane frantically scavenges through the dead woman’s remaining possessions, Emma discovers a letter addressed to a Miss Alice Redmayne in London. 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 mysterious letter. ![]()
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