The Night of the Ripper

"On the night of August 5, 1988, Eva Sloane stepped out of the Paragon Music Hall and emerged in Hell."So begins Robert Bloch's attempt at solving the most famous serial killings of the 19th century. Combining his own fictional creations with some of Victorian England's most prominent real-life citizens, including Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Inspector Frederick Abberline, the man who led the investigation of the Ripper murders for Scotland Yard.The writer of 'Psycho' delves into the criminal mind yet again, only this time the victims were real, the killer was real, and you can't console yourself by repeating, "It's only a movie...it's only a movie..."