Paula Marantz Cohen is a Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is the author of "Jane Austen in Boca," "Jane Austen in Scarsdale," and "Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan," and four scholarly works of nonfiction, including "Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism, Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth," and "The Daughter’s Dilemma: Family Process and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel." Cohen’s literary thriller, "What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper," will be available wherever books are sold on September 7, 2010.