In Bleecker Street by Ted Lampron, in the summer of 1890, in the crime-ridden streets of New York, a drunken old seaman staggers out of a rundown bar. He is invited into an alley by a prostitute, and that is where he meets his gruesome death. This is the first of many murders in the slums of Manhattan, New York. Emma, a young reporter with an ambition to become an investigative journalist, is determined to find the killer nicknamed the New York Ripper. She risks everything to solve the spate of murders, even going undercover as a prostitute herself, where she attracts the attention of many unsavory characters. Meanwhile, a mental patient from an asylum has just escaped and is heading for New York with a score to settle that involves the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. There is one man he believes holds the answers; Emma's friend, Victor Titus. Is the New York Ripper linked to the infamous Ripper of London's Whitechapel? Will Emma find the killer before he finds her?