A cold-blooded scoundrel / J.S. Cook

"An Inspector Devlin mystery" - T.p.

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In London, at a time when Jack the Ripper's crimes are still fresh in the memory, a well-known male prostitute is brutially murdered, the head neatly severed, and the body set on fire. Detective Inspector Philip Devlin of Scotland Yard, mid-thirties and secretly gay, is summoned to the murder scene by his plain clothes constable, and soon he is caught in a web of intrigue as more brutal murders occur. A story unfolds of a man who must confront not only the killer but his own inner demons in order to stop a cycle of violence that is harrowing the city