"Not since Dickens has a British fiction-writer dealt with murder in a book of such size and seriousness" - SUNDAY EXPRESS

In this brilliant novel, Colin Wilson, now-famous author of The Outsider, has recalled Jack the Ripper

In the year 1888, that notorious murderer terrorized London's East End - his victims always women.

Transposing these ghastly crimes to our own day, the author has invented a sex-killer every bit as vicious as Jack the Ripper - and has set him loose on contemporary London.

In a novel of classic proportions and biting realism, he has analysed the mind of a maniac - creating a spine-chiller that poses the profoundest of questions.

First published 1960 by Victor Gollancz Ltd
© Colin Wilson 1960

COLIN WILSON'S CLASSIC NOVEL OF CONTEMPORARY MURDER

A wave of sickening deaths hits the streets of modern London. Young women, mainly prostitutes, are found strangled and mutilated. The police are baffled, the press outraged - not since Jack the Ripper has such a sinister brand of violent murders been unleashed. Is the culprit a homicidal maniac or a cold-blooded, calculating killer wreaking a personal vendetta on a corrupt and callous society?

In this best-selling, blood-blanching chiller, Colin Wilson examines the murderous motives of a depraved mind and creates a story of biting realism which will stagger the imagination and shock the intellect...

Granada Publishing Limited, Published in 1976 by Panther Books Ltd
First published 1960 by Victor Gollancz Ltd
© Colin Wilson 1960