- A man dies in the street, and word quickly spreads that cholera may have been to blame. However, Jackson thinks otherwise, and when dozens of others become ill, the race is on to discover the origin of the sickness.
- People are dying in the streets of Whitechapel and it seems that cholera has returned caused by a contaminated water pump. Jackson,however,examining the first victim,a man who has come from the city of London,detects the cause of death as ergotism,which sends its victims mad before they perish,and which has been deliberately added to the flour at Flora Gable's mill by a self-imposed judge of morals,who is also seeking notoriety in excess of the Ripper. With Reid's wife among the stricken the Whitechapel force must combine with Inspector Ressler from the city to catch the killer.—don @ minifie-1
- When a man falls down dead in the middle of Whitechapel, rumors begin that "King" cholera has returned. Reid doesn't remember the last cholera epidemic of 1876 but Homer Jackson remembers what had happened during the cholera outbreak in New Orleans in 1875 and the widespread death and devastation it caused. As the deaths begin to mount Reid also has to deal with Inspector Sidney Ressler of the City Police who feels the Metropolitan Police are trespassing on his turf. Homer Jackson is able to determine however that it's not cholera but a poison. They trace it to the same bakery where the men and fear that all of the area's flour may be affected.—garykmcd
- A man dies after drinking from the public water pump and many fear "King Cholera" has returned. Dr. Jackson has experience with the 1875 epidemic in New Orleans; he soon finds Ergotism, plus another element, are the actual culprits. Emily Reid falls ill. When Jackson rules out arsenic; antimony, (itself, causing a cruel and painful death) is found to be the insane additive to a local food source comprised of wheat. Many sicken and dozens die; but, the Leman St. crew races against the clock to stop the madman. Some people will do anything to see their name in print and be a part of the fabric of popular history, a disease created during the Industrial Revolution and fed at the birth of the first nasty, yellow tabloid.—LA-Lawyer
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