A taste for monsters
题名:
A taste for monsters
著者:
Kirby, Matthew J., 1976-
ISBN:
9780545817844
版:
First edition.
出版信息:
New York : Scholastic Press, 2016.
规格:
343 p. ; 22 cm
摘要:
In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.
主题词汇:
主题:
| Phosphorus -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Neurofibromatosis -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Ghost stories. |
| Serial murders -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Murder -- Investigation -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Disfigured persons -- Fiction. |
| Neurofibromatosis -- Fiction. |
| Ghosts -- Fiction. |
| Serial murderers -- Fiction. |
| Murder -- Fiction. |
| London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction. |
| London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. |
| Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction. |
| Merrick, Joseph Carey, 1862-1890 -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Jack, the Ripper -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Merrick, Joseph Carey, 1862-1890 -- Fiction. |
| Jack, the Ripper -- Fiction. |
摘要:
In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.