A portrait of a top Jack the Ripper suspect identifies lawyer Montague Druitt as an unlikely candidate who was born into a comfortable bourgeois family and received an Oxford education, offering insight into the lesser-known aspects of his nature, which encompassed homosexual tendencies, a dismissal from his post at a boys' school, and his drowning death months after the Ripper murders.

There have been countless attempts to solve the brutal murders committed by Jack the Ripper. Casting aside the rumours, fantasies and urban legends which have haunted this case for so long, this work produces some results: it has long been accepted that Jack the Ripper killed only five women, but it can be revealed that up to nine were victims.

Between 1959 and 1965, eight prostitutes were murdered in West London by a serial killer. These murders were the most notorious unsolved crimes of the 20th century. This book reconstructs the investigation related to these murders and recreates the dark, brutal world of prostitutes and ponces in 1960s West London.

The case of Jack the Ripper has at last been cracked by the one man most qualified to do so--a former murder squad detective. Marriott casts aside the rumors which have for so long dogged the most famous police case of all time. Revealing the techniques used by modern police, he leads us straight to the criminal world's best-kept secret: the identity of Jack the Ripper. He shows the tally of victims may be far higher than previously known and that the real killer is a completely new suspect with unique access to the area of the murders. For more than a hundred years, the Ripper has evaded capture, but this time his luck has finally run out.--From publisher description.