The Night of the Ripper by Robert Bloch SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1984 • Doubleday
The Night of the Ripper by Robert Bloch
FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1984] DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY
*Title page has been signed and flat-inscribed "All the best to you! - Robert Bloch" dated 1984.
Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.
Dust jacket has some visible shelf wear; some scratches; otherwise excellent. Looks fantastic in a new archival quality jacket protector.
Book itself is mint. Looks and reads like new.
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...