Readers are transported to Victorian London and introduced to Inspector
Doyle, a modern-day detective with eternal life, who discovers that he
has been wrongly named as 'Jack the Ripper', the Victorian serial
killer. Nobody wants that label at any time in history, so with the aid
of time travel he returns to the year 1888 in an attempt to clear his
name.
Another complication for Inspector Doyle is that his modern-day
daughter, Flora, who he has left behind to travel back several
centuries, is becoming increasingly suspicious of her father's identity.
This is after making her way into his Shrewsbury study, that she is
forbidden to enter.
The only good thing about returning to 1888 is that Inspector Doyle is
able to rekindle his relationship with daughter Alice and wife Eleanor,
who he had to leave behind all those centuries ago. Alice can then only
but marvel at her father's abilities to answer a question that only he
knows the answer to, because he has travelled into the future and
back.
The story references many Victorian objects that have been meticulously
researched and then used to tell a story that is only possible through
time travel and a rather clever inventor who may or may not be still
alive. Many elements of the original Jack the Ripper case are also
detailed as are the horrors of Whitechapel.
Find out whether Inspector Doyle manages to clear his name by
discovering who the real Jack the Ripper is, and expect a twist at the
end that involves both daughters and a Victorian book that, unlike the
rest of Inspector Doyle's objects, is unable to exist in parallel
between the two time zones.
