NINETEEN
THE TALE OF JACK THE RIPPER
In contrast to the house on the hill at Abbotsford Road, the suburban home of the man leading the investigation into the Brighton murders was small, neat, and far less ostentatious and opulent in its outward appearance. With clean white net curtains hanging in the windows, and recently painted woodwork adorning the exterior windows and doors, number forty-eight Acacia Road looked every inch the typical English middle-class home. He’d rented the place soon after his divorce, his ex-wife having retained the marital home as part of their divorce settlement. Not too far from the centre of town, the house had been built in eighteen-ninety, soon after the series of killings in the Whitechapel area of London that now appeared to have had their ghosts resurre
