''Savage: From Whitechapel to the Wild West on the Track of Jack the Ripper'' is a 1993 historical fiction horror novel by

Richard Laymon Richard Carl Laymon (January 14, 1947 – February 14, 2001) was an American author of suspense and horror fiction, particularly within the splatterpunk subgenre. Life and career Laymon was born and raised outside of Chicago, Illinois, then li ...

. It begins with Jack the Ripper's final, gruesome killing of Mary Jane Kelly, and a young boy who is concealed under the bed during the attack. The boy then tracks the killer to the New World, first to NYC and then to the

American West The Western United States (also called the American West, the Far West, and the West) is the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the meaning of the term ''the Wes ...

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1993 novels Cultural depictions of Jack the Ripper {{1990s-hist-novel-stub