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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cohen, Paula Marantz

What Alice knew : a most curious tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper / Paula Marantz Cohen.

p. cm.

1. James, Henry, 1843-1916—Fiction. 2. James, Alice, 1848-1892—Fiction. 3. James, William, 1842-1910—Fiction. 4. Jack, the Ripper—Fiction. 5. Serial murder investigation—Fiction. 6. London (England)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3603.O372W47 2010

813’.6—dc22

2010017242