Today’s Harrowing Historical is: What Alice Knew by Paula Marantz Cohen
Synopsis from the publisher: Under Certain Circumstances, No One Is More Suited to Solving a Crime than a Woman Confined to Her Bed…
An invalid for most her life, Alice James is quite used to people underestimating her. And she generally doesn’t mind. But this time she is not about to let things alone. Yes, her brother Henry may be a famous author, and her other brother William a rising star in the new field of psychology. But when they all find themselves quite unusually involved in the chase for a most vile new murderer—one who goes by the chilling name of Jack the Ripper—Alice is certain of two things:
No one could be more suited to gather evidence about the nature of the killer than her brothers. But if anyone is going to correctly examine the evidence and solve the case, it will have to be up to her.
Check out Jen’s (Devourer of Books) guest post A Literary Jack the Ripper to read her thoughts on What Alice Knew as well as other novelizations of Jack the Ripper.
I’m not a Jack the Ripper fan, but I adore the James family — I’m dying to read this one!
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I really enjoyed WHAT ALICE KNEW as well as Jen’s post on other books featuring this premise. Thanks for the Harrowing Historicals feature. I always find out about great books this way.
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