The lady broke away from them, but in her headlong flight she missed her footing and tumbled straight over the parapet's edge, plummeting to her death in the yard below, her cloak billowing out as she fell, like the wings and the plumage of an exotic scarlet and black bird of paradise.
(Phineas Fox #4)
A singer receives three unpublished pieces of music by Liszt after his death and uses one of them as a snatch of music that women might be able to use to warn each other of Jack the Ripper being in the area, and teaches the music along with lyrics to the community at local pubs along with a young woman who works for her. The woman's father was abusive, and after his daughter fails to kill him, the singer arranges for him to be locked up in an asylum, the same asylum in which Jack the Ripper is detained. The asylum, a tunnel house from which inmates never emerge, burns down letting out both the abusive father and the serial killer. The singer is believed to have murdered the killer although she has, in fact, killed the other in self defence and is sentenced to hang for the wrong murder. She escapes the noose but only by hurtling to her death by falling off a parapet while trying to escape it. Meanwhile, Jack dies while trying to kill her employee: she's seen him as has her brother and, knowing who he is, they could potentially have sent him to the gallows. The brother is an artist and his works sheds light on the sorry saga as a music researcher digs into Liszt's past.