SOURCE: A review of Pentecost Alley, in Jerusalem Post, January 16, 1998, p. 99.

In the following excerpt, Auswaks discusses the questions raised in Perry's Pentecost Alley.

… Two years after the unsolved Ripper murders a young prostitute is found murdered [in Pentecost Alley]. The personal effects of Finlay FitzJames (including a Hellfire Club pin), a handsome and spoilt scion of a rich family, are found in her bed. Is he guilty?

His father is rich and powerful. No policeman dares move against such a family. The family refuses to cooperate. The prostitute's pimp is arrested, tried, sentenced and hanged. But then a second prostitute is murdered and the circumstances are in every particular the same as the first. Again everything points to Finlay FitzJames. Riots break out. There is the threat of the breakdown of public order. Have the coppers framed an innocent man for a rich man's son to get...