Books about Jack the Ripper abound and I‘ve read most of them, so I was not expecting the shaken-to-the-bone experience Rayne delivers here. Musicologist Phin Fox finds himself in Whitechapel searching for Scaramel, a reknowned nightclub performer from the 1880s who had some connection to Franz Liszt and Jack the Ripper. Rayne‘s work combines mystery, horror, history & a little romance. Good, scary reading.