Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Jack the Ripper meets Ebenezer Scrooge


Winifred Rudge, is in London to research a novel linking Jack the Ripper to the house in Hampstead where her own great-great-grandfather rumored to be the model for Ebenezer Scrooge lived. But Winnie's cousin, John Comestor, the latest resident of the family house has gone missing and something is making an infernal racket inside the chimney. As wormen are scared away from opening the chimney, Winnie tries to figure out the secret that ties her family history together in Lost by Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked.

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