#1 – The Ripper’s Shadow
London, 1888. Photographer Sarah Bain supplements her income by producing discreet portraits of women who work in Whitechapel. When two of her models are murdered, she believes their deaths are part of the series attributed to Jack the Ripper and begins an investigation the police neither…
#2 – A Mortal Likeness
London, 1889. Sarah Bain, Hugh Staunton and Mick O’Reilly operate a private detective agency while keeping secret their role in resolving the Ripper case. Banker Sir Gerald Mariner hires them to recover his missing infant after a photograph taken during an unrelated surveillance job reveals a…
#3 – The Hangman’s Secret
London, January 1890. Sarah Bain and her partners now photograph crime scenes for the Daily World. They are summoned when Harry Warbrick, England’s leading hangman, is found hanged and decapitated in his own pub, apparently subjected to the punishment he administered to others. The murder connects…
#4 – The Woman in the Veil
London, June 1890. Sarah Bain photographs what appears to be a murdered woman on the Thames embankment, only to discover that the mutilated victim is still alive. The press names her Sleeping Beauty, and three different parties claim her as a wife, sister or mother. When…
#5 – Portrait of Peril
London, October 1890. Sarah Bain’s wedding to Detective Sergeant Barrett is interrupted when the body of spirit photographer Charles Firth is discovered in the church crypt. One of Firth’s plates appears to show a pale figure attacking him, encouraging claims that a ghost committed the crime.…
#6 – Garden of Sins
London, November 1890. After a train crash, Sarah Bain Barrett and her husband discover a passenger who was strangled before the collision. Their search for the woman’s identity leads to Cremorne Gardens, a riverside pleasure ground combining theatre, carnival acts and displays of human difference. A…
#7 – River of Fallen Angels
London, April 1891. A woman’s severed torso washes onto the Thames bank, reviving fear of an unsolved serial murderer. Sarah Bain Barrett investigates with Hugh Staunton, Mick O’Reilly, her husband Thomas and her reporter sister Sally, while psychologist Joshua Lewes applies the new practice of criminal…