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But no sooner does Cyd arrive in London than Shep's death by natural causes starts to look most unnatural. \u003cp\u003eCyd's only hope for recovering the body and vamoosing back to Brooklyn is to find the killer herself-but she's thwarted at every turn by Scotland Yard, Shep's former girlfriends, a sinister mortuary service, an old nemesis, and her taxidermist uncle. And when Shep's apartment is ransacked and a second Ripper expert is found murdered, Cyd knows she'll have to solve the crimes fast, before someone books her on a one-way trip to the morgue . . . \u003c\/p\u003e  Cyd's Balenciaga bag deserves to become as legendary as Sherlock Holmes's deerstalker and magnifying glass. -James W. 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