IS SPRING-HEELED JACK STILL AROUND? The red-eyed, claw-handed, blue flame breathing high jumper has been sighted over the years and to this day. This book brings the Terror of London to America as he shadows 3 friends fleeing authorities and Jack. A chimney sweep named Bill and his ratcatcher friend, Jeremy, investigate the possibilities of origin for this high-flying villain. A mad scientist, animal, spirit, automaton, mutation, cryptid, alien, devil, circus freak, or just a guy? Come on the investigation in New York City in 1900 to check out some interesting locations: Seance, cager gang basketball game, automaton race, giant rat maze race, class A restaurant, deteriorating opium drug den, cemetery headstone chess, driverless funeral coach, the opera, circus, or the zoo. All illustrated in this sequel to The Bones of Jack.