Аннотация
RIPTIDE
Michael Prescott
http://michaelprescott.net/
To the memory of my grandfather, Frederick Kleen
Some of the historical interludes in this novel are based on real events. Carrie Brown was murdered on April 23, 1891, in the East River Hotel. Press coverage and police investigation of the crime are presented accurately. The October 1896 letter and other quoted correspondence still exist in police archives.
M.P.
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
—W. B. Yeats
1891
Edward Hare sat alone at a corner table, nursing a mug of beer and warding off the blandishments of harlots. It was ten o’clock on a Thursday night, and the sailors and migrants who infested the dockside slums were out carousing. He was familiar with their kind. Some things were the same in every country—the smoky taverns, the alleyways s...

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