MURDER MYSTERY, REAL LIFE CRIME, TOPOGRAPHY,
RARE, SECOND HAND, OUT OF PRINT, BOOKS & PRINTS

Three female paupers of dubious morals are gruesomely murdered. Their corpses are horribly mutilated. Instantly, London is thrust into a state of terror. A monstrous ghoul is prowling the night untouchable by Scotland Yard.

Baffled and desperate, the Yard turns to Sherlock Holmes. Holmes challenged this diabolical adversary in the most extraordinary case of his career.

“An explosive, controversial book… A horrible thread of reality…runs through the tale as it does in no other Sherlock Holmes story, for the Whitechapel murders were real.” Baltimore Sun

“One of the most shocking accounts of crime ever produced.” Chicago Sun-Times

First Ballantine Books Edition - 1979
Ballantine Books, New York
ISBN: 0-345-28067-9
Second hand paperback in very good condition
178 Pages
13.5 x 17.7cm

$33