A taste for monsters

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Kirby, Matthew J., 1976-
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In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselveshaunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.

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Detective and mystery fiction
Disfigured persons
Disfigured persons -- Fiction
Electronic books
Europe
Fiction
Ghosts
Ghosts -- Fiction
Ghost stories
Ghost stories. -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction
Historical fiction
History
Horror fiction
Investigation
Jack
Jack, -- Fiction
Jack, -- Juvenile fiction
Jack, -- the Ripper -- Fiction
London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
London (England) -- History -- Fiction
London (England) -- History -- Juvenile fiction
Merrick, Joseph Carey
Merrick, Joseph Carey, -- 1862-1890 -- Fiction
Merrick, Joseph Carey, -- Fiction
Merrick, Joseph Carey, -- Juvenile fiction
Murder
Murder -- Fiction
Murder -- History -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Neurofibromatosis
Neurofibromatosis -- Fiction
Phosphorus
Phosphorus -- Physiological effect -- Fiction
Physiological effect
Serial murderers
Serial murderers -- Fiction
Serial murders
Serial murders -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Serial murders -- History -- Fiction

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9780545817844
9780545817943
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Lexile measure:
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Electronic books
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Ghost stories. -- Fiction
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Historical fiction
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Neurofibromatosis -- Fiction
Phosphorus -- Physiological effect -- Fiction
Serial murderers -- Fiction
Serial murders -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Serial murders -- History -- Fiction
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Physiological effect
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