The Scott Carson Saga

1888. Jack the Ripper, the first modern serial killer, has paralyzed London from the East End’s squalid alleys to the gilded halls of Buckingham Palace. Four women have been butchered with a savage sophistication never before seen. Saucy Jack’s a new breed of criminal for which Scotland Yard has no solution.

Carson quickly realizes this person who’d had delivered the photo to NYPD HQ on Mulberry Street may be a more advanced photographer than him and his interest is piqued. Riis introduces him to this detective, Angelo Delmonico (of the famous restauranteur family) and he finds the scientific-minded detective and he are of a similar mind regarding this new killer. Together with teenager Kelley McCarthy, a pioneering female urban explorer "who goes where even the rats don’t go", the trio chase an ingenious and elusive serial killer who is murdering little girls and turning them into human dolls.

November 22, 1888. Young cameraman Scott Carson fires two shots. A body falls into the Thames, ending Buffalo Bill’s team’s battle with Jack the Ripper. The ship sails to New York, no one says a word about the killing, and everyone uneasily resumes their lives. Then, on New Year’s Eve, 1899, Carson sees a ghost from his past.

It’s June, 1920. The Jazz Age and Wall Street's boom are getting into full swing. The Great War and the Spanish Flu pandemic are over and America's looking forward to good times. But renowned Whist and Bridge expert and wealthy Wall Street investor Joseph Elwell won’t live long enough to see those times because someone put a bullet in his head. Most confounding for the NYPD, He was murdered in a locked room with no means for the killer to escape. Elwell was a notorious womanizer and the question isn’t who wanted him dead but who didn’t?