A Study In Red
The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper
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3.5 • 6 Ratings
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Publisher Description
On the table of psychiatrist Robert Cavendish lay a strange set of papers, claimed to be the journal of the infamous Whitechapel murderer whose crimes instilled terror on the streets of Victorian London.
Delving deeper into the journal, Robert is convinced of its authenticity, and finds that the words of the Ripper have a strange and compelling effect on him. Unable to cast the pages aside, he is drawn into the dark, sinister world of Jack The Ripper.
Robert is about to find out just how thin the line between sanity and madness really is. But can he distinguish fact from fantasy?
Customer Reviews
Editor badly needed throughout this book.
Where do I start? Firstly let me be clear that the story and imagination of the author is fantastic. What lets it down throughout is the amount of typos which nearly put me off after the first couple of chapters. However, the plot intrigued me enough to keep reading. Secondly, the main character of this story appears to like to repeat himself often and if this book had a better edit, it would be reduced to a more succinct story. Given that this is a tale that involves the psychological breakdown of more than one of its characters, maybe the repetition was deliberate. All I can say is I started to speed read the repetitions as in my mind they were to frequent and unnecessary. One example if this is the amount of times the narrator pontificates about how he should just skip to the end of the bundle of papers he was bequeathed but never does. Seeing there are sequels to this book answers some of my questions regarding what happens to the papers after his death any why, I don’t think I will be reading the rest. A great shame because the plot was both original and as realistic as possible, interspersed with historical facts throughout.