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The Strange Michael Folmer Affair

John Rigbey

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18 May 2007
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Following the murder of a prostitute in London's East End Detective Chief Inspector Mike Gregory of New Scotland Yard is deputed to investigate what seems to be the emergence of a crazed killer bent on emulating the crimes of nineteenth century Jack the Ripper.With his marriage failing and plagued with self-doubt, Gregory pits his wits against the serial killer but when the fingerprints on a letter sent by the murderer appear to match those of a man hanged for murdering a prostitute almost fifty years earlier the enquiry takes and bizarre and unprecedented turn.As he pieces together the fragile threads of the case, you will follow Gregory through the sewers of Victorian London to the West End of the fifties and into the present day, culminating with the shocking and grisly final attempt of the killer to replicate the last murder of his sickening 1888 predecessor.An essential read for "Ripperologists" and all devotees of crime fiction, "Folmer" is an intriguing and fascinating tale of a modern serial murderer, and as well as examining the Victorian crimes and the sordid underbelly of 1950's Soho, the reader is afforded a fascinating close-up view as the murderer descends into madness.

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Following the murder of a prostitute in London's East End Detective Chief Inspector Mike Gregory of New Scotland Yard is deputed to investigate what seems to be the emergence of a crazed killer bent on emulating the crimes of nineteenth century Jack the Ripper.With his marriage failing and plagued with self-doubt, Gregory pits his wits against the serial killer but when the fingerprints on a letter sent by the murderer appear to match those of a man hanged for murdering a prostitute almost fifty years earlier the enquiry takes and bizarre and unprecedented turn.As he pieces together the fragile threads of the case, you will follow Gregory through the sewers of Victorian London to the West End of the fifties and into the present day, culminating with the shocking and grisly final attempt of the killer to replicate the last murder of his sickening 1888 predecessor.An essential read for "Ripperologists" and all devotees of crime fiction, "Folmer" is an intriguing and fascinating tale of a modern serial murderer, and as well as examining the Victorian crimes and the sordid underbelly of 1950's Soho, the reader is afforded a fascinating close-up view as the murderer descends into madness.

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