Bibliograph

Gideon Smith and the mask of the Ripper, David Barnett

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Gideon Smith and the mask of the Ripper, David Barnett

Language

eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Gideon Smith and the mask of the Ripper

Oclc number

911004697

Responsibility statement

David Barnett

Series statement

Adventures of Gideon Smith

Summary

In an alternate ninteenth century where a technologically advanced Britain holds sway over most of the known world and the American Revolution never happened, young Gideon Smith is firmly established as the Hero of the Empire. Back in London, Gideon and his colleagues--journalist Aloysius Bent, airship pilot Rowena Fanshawe, and Maria, the mechanical girl to whom Gideon has lost his heart--are dragged into a case that is confounding the Metropolitan Police. For the city is on the edge of mass rioting due to the continuing reign of terror by the serial killer known only as Jack the Ripper, who is rampaging through London's less salubrious quarters. While chasing the madman, a villain from their past strips Gideon Smith of his memory and casts him adrift in the seedy underbelly of London, where life is tough and death lurks in every shadowy alley. With mob rule threatening to engulf London, the Empire has never needed its hero more...but where is Gideon Smith?

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