The Prostitute's Price: A Novel of Mary Jane Kelly, the Fifth Victim of Jack the Ripper

by Alan M. Clark, Alan M. Clark (Illustrator)

Overview

A novel that beats back our assumptions about the time of Jack the Ripper. Not the grim story of an unfortunate drunken prostitute killed before her time, but one of a young woman alive with all the emotional complexity of women today. Running from a man wanting her to pay for her crimes against his brother, Mary Jane Kelly must recover a valuable hidden necklace and sell it to gain the funds to leave London and start over elsewhere. Driven by powerful, if at times conflicting emotion, she runs the dystopian labyrinth of the East End, and tries to sneak past the deadly menace that bars her exit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780999665619
Publisher:	IFD Publishing
Publication date:	09/10/2018
Series:	Jack the Ripper Victims Series , #5
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

Editorial Reviews

The Prostitute’s Price is a stunning book; richly imagined and beautifully written in a pared-down, modest, unpretentious style. It is a story about love and friendship and desolation and grief, charged throughout with unease and a sense of the fragility of life. Reading Alan’s work I always find myself seeking out those small glimpses of light that leaven the sudden violence and suffering ‒ the sizzle of German sausages in a Spitalfields market, the blast of chocolate and mustard from the Taylor Brothers’ cocoa factory, a children’s toy village where the ghosts of prostitutes walk the streets in safety.

I regard the five books that make up this series as unarguably one of the high points in Ripper fiction over the past 130 years

—Ripperologist magazine

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