A Fashionable Death: A brief history of gowns, gloves and arsenic – Part I

A Fashionable Death: A brief history of gowns, gloves and arsenic – Part I

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A Killer In Our Midst

The ladies of Discovery Lane are flocking to Kaylah’s Tea Room. They are driven there by fear, and a need for companionship and consolation. A murderer, known as Jack the Ripper, is loose in the slums of London. The papers, and the inhabitants of Discovery Lane, can talk of little else. 

With Whitechapel (the Ripper’s hunting grounds) over 90 miles away, the odds are against anyone in Discovery Lane being murdered. At least, against being murdered by the Ripper. What the ladies don’t know is that there is a killer in their midst.

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