Bloodstains

the long version

"For decades, English investigators have been convinced that one, or two, of the Jack the Ripper murders were committed by an American surgeon in London. Maybe they were right"--Page 4 of cover This story set in Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., San Francisco, New York, and London in the summer of 1888 is based on the true story of and facts uncovered by the author's investigation of the life of his great-great grandfather, Herman Webster Mudgett, aka H.H. Holmes.