Devlin the Barber

When Lizzie Melladew is murdered, a friend of the family turns detective. A tip off from a former servant leads the amateur investigator to Devlin - a mysterious barber with extraordinary and uncanny abilities. Devlin agrees to use these to help discover the killer. But is Devlin well-named? Is there, indeed, something develish afoot...? A Victorian detective story with an unusual supernatural twist, this novel was first published in 1888 and was directly inspired by the then recent Jack the Ripper murders.