BBC America’s new crime drama Ripper Street focuses on London’s East End shortly following the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders. Inspector Reid (Matthew Macfadyen), one of the lead detectives in the case, believes he will one day solve the crime. Reid is assisted by Sergeant Drake (Jerome Flynn), his fiercely loyal
enforcer and Captain Jackson (Adam Rothenberg), an American expert in the budding science of forensics. Ripper Street premieres Saturday January 19th, at 8pm. If you are looking forward to this series you may also like:
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Jack the Ripper and the case for Scotland Yard’s prime suspect by Robert House
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Portrait of a killer: Jack the Ripper—case closed by Patricia Cornwell
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The murder room: the heirs of Sherlock Holmes gather to solve the world’s most perplexing cold cases by Mike Capuzzo
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The Yard by Alex Grecian
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What Alice knew: a most curious tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper by Paula Marantz Cohen
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The map of time by Felix J. Palma
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The lodger: a story of the London Fog directed by Alfred Hitchcock
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--KC