There is a palpable sense of danger and foreboding around every corner as Carver wrestles with Hawking’s advice – to catch a killer, you may have to become one – not knowing how closely his future (and his past) is linked to the madman at the center of the bloody murders ravaging the City. The plot is complex and the “game” Carver has to solve is multifaceted and the misdirects, illusions, and obstacles are many. Stefan Petrucha’s Ripperis a suspenseful, sinister, fast moving mystery that I thoroughly enjoyed. have the same dogged determination, sharply attuned attention to detail, and astounding cleverness to prove their mettle as skilled detectives. stumbles into, but both boys face ruthless, cunning killers who remain one step ahead of them most of the time, with little help or any clear guidance on whom to trust.

The high-tech, pulsating, frenzied world Carver finds couldn’ t be more different from the world P.K. Carver soon enters an underground hive of detectives, steam-punk style technology, and fantastic invention: the hidden remnants of Allen Pinkerton’s famous agency, resurrected in the future-subway tunnels of New York. About to be turned out from the orphanage where he’s lived his whole life, Carver is inexplicably taken as apprentice to the curmudgeonly, perhaps insane, former partner of Allen Pinkerton, Albert Hawking. Seemingly on the other side of the world from the hardscrabble frontier, Carver Young is a 14 year old orphan in New York City in 1889. decides to try his luck and hone his sleuthing skills in the Wild West. P.K.’s hope was to get to Chicago to meet, and perhaps work for, the legendary detective and his famous agency, but when the first book in The Wild West Mysteries series ends, P.K. Pinkerton, uses his wits, cunning, and pokerface to outwit some ruthless villains and set up a detective agency of his own. The Case of the Deadly Desperadosis set in the lawless mining town of Virginia City, Nevada Territory, where the presumed nephew of the famous detective, P.K. |a Pinkerton's National Detective Agency |v Juvenile fiction. In 1895, seven years after the Rippers killing spree in England, 14-year-old Carver Youngs place in an orphanage is threatened due to financial crises, and. |a Jack, |c the Ripper |v Juvenile fiction. Petrucha (Split) breathes new life into the oft-visited Jack the Ripper genre, transporting the killer to New York City and using some well-chosen historical figures to flesh out the tale. |a Adopted by famous Pinkerton Agency Detective Hawking in 1895 New York, fourteen-year-old Carver Young hopes to find his birth father, but when he becomes involved in the pursuit of notorious killer Jack the Ripper, Carver discovers that finding the truth can be worse than ignorance. |a New York : |b Philomel Books, |c c2012.

Ripper by Stefan Petrucha