Blood of the fathers

Londoner Phillip Tarpin has no sooner accepted a prestigious publishing job in New York than he's beset by multiple tragedies, starting with the suspicious deaths of his estranged mother and his fiancée. Soon after he receives the manuscript for a new Ripper exposé by a popular historian, Tarpin is mutilated by a brutal assailant wearing the costume of "The Nemesis of Neglect," a cartoon figure created for a London newspaper at the time of the Whitechapel murders to represent the legendary serial killer.