- History, Serial murder investigation, Serial murderers, Fiction
In *Dust and Shadow*, Sherlock Holmes hunts down Jack the Ripper with impeccably accurate historical detail, rooting the Whitechapel investigation in the fledgling days of tabloid journalism and clinical psychology.
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Nostalgic, grave, resolved and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Lyndsay Faye
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 331
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781416583301
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Lyndsay Faye is the author of critically acclaimed Dust and Shadow and the Timothy Wilde trilogy: the Edgar Award-nominated The Gods of Gotham, Seven For A Secret and The Fatal Flame. She is featured in Best American Mystery Stories 2010. Faye, a true New Yorker in the sense that she was born elsewhere, lives in Queens with her husband Gabriel.
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