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Stephen P. Ryder
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Username: Admin
Post Number: 2795
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 9:03 am: | 
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For all you Buffy fans... Buffy and Spike vs. Jack the Ripper, what could be better? 
The strongest magick ever distilled, and the deadliest butcher England has ever known...
Buffy Summers is on the trail of a killer demon in Sunnydale, and reluctantly accepts the help of Spike. Anything's better than his moping around. But Spike -- as usual -- has his own agenda, and it involves something the demon is carrying: a vial of pure magickal power. Spike knows plenty of people and demons who will pay top dollar for this vial: Doc, Rack...and an ancient evil known as The First.
Spike has encountered The First before. In the good old days in Victorian London, when Spike, Drusilla, Angelus, and Darla ran through the night in pursuit of dark fun, another evil being was stalking the streets, dispatching young women with brutal efficiency. But when the so-called "Jack the Ripper" struck too close to their twisted "family," the vampires found themselves on the same side as the Slayer of that time. Working to bring down Jack, and running afoul of The First, Spike and the Slayer formed an uneasy alliance, which followed Spike all through the twentieth century to present day Sunnydale, now blanketed in a mysterious fog....
The Library of Congress for some reason is providing the full-text of a good chunk of this novel (if not all of it) at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/simon031/2002115626.html
Stephen P. Ryder, Editor
Casebook: Jack the Ripper
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Buzz
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| | Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 4:40 am: |
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Hi.
Have you read the book? I'm the first to say I own alot of the Buffy books (sad huh?!) and was debating buying this one. Just wondered if it stuck to the facts of JTR- obviously with vampires in the mix! |
Kenshin
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| | Posted on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 9:39 am: |
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Its the best book. I read it 3 times, then I found this site. I'm doing a project on Criminals. Kinda weird.... |
Buzz
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 5:42 am: |
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Ok- finally got around to coming back here after ages. (Still not registered though...)
I was actually really unimpressed with this book. There was actually very little that related well to JtR in my opinion. It seemed a little TOO farfetched- obviously it was going to be with vampires and the like, but it was too much. |
A. J.
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| | Posted on Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 5:53 pm: |
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Hello all,
Just thought I would add an interesting tit-bit of info that I was wondering if the author (Nancy Holden) for this Buffy novel knew. A story called “Blood and Fog” written by a former NY policeman (Leonard Carstairs) turned pulp mystery writer, and published in 1901, was about a thinly-veiled account of the hunt for Jack the Ripper which chronicled the heinous crimes of "Rick the Mauler" in 1880’s London. Apparently it was not especially well-received.
Sincerely yours,
Jacunius. |
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