The mechanical messiah and other marvels of the modern age

By Robert Rankin

Subjects: Murder, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general

Description: Chased out of 19th-century Arizona, where he was working to create a mechanical interpretation of a religious figure, Colonel Katterfelto returns to a London under the shadow of an uneasy interplanetary peace only to confront a murderous monster who he fears may be a returning Jack the Ripper.