The Night in Question

It’s a funny thing, how you could have hardly a friend in the world, but get yourself murdered and they’ll be round you like flies on yesterday’s fish.

So says Dot Allbones of her tragic friend, Kate Eddowes.

When star of London’s Victorian music hall, Dot Allbones, bumps into her childhood friend Kate Eddowes outside the Griffin theatre in Shoreditch, it’s a blast from the past. The two grew up together in the Midlands, but life has treated them very differently since then.

Told through the eyes of the irreverent Dot, this is the story of a London populated by chancers, some rich, some destitute. During one hot summer in the 1880s Whitechapel famously became the scene of unspeakable horror, and Kate Eddowes found a grisly fame that would far outshine Dot’s.

Because out there, in the stews of East London, Saucy Jack is sharpening his knife …