#Kurori's Listings Hayakawa Bunko, first edition, 1988. Shows signs of age. #Katsuo Nika In 1888 London, a city reveling in prosperity, five prostitutes were successively murdered. The brutal method of slitting throats and mutilating genitals sent shockwaves through the citizenry, and despite the police's desperate investigation, the perpetrator was never caught. Even after 100 years, who was this "Jack the Ripper," who continues to live on in legend as the quintessential notorious serial killer in criminal history and a symbol of the Victorian era? The only Ripperologist in Japan sharply approaches the identity of this rare "monster" while vividly recreating the historical background and the course of the events at the time.