Softcover. The year is 1888 and Jack the Ripper has already started his slaughter of London's East End prostitutes. This is a fictional account of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid's hunt for the Ripper. The book describes how things might have been; providing an insight into Reid's career and his struggle to remove himself from the shadow of his great nemesis, Detective Inspector Frederick Abberline. With Bibliography. 365pp. trade size softcover. With v.v. sl. turned-up corner to fr. cover o/w Nr. F.