To Jenny, always to Jenny, thank you.
To the Ripperologists, all of them (right or wrong), from the first reporter for the Star – to the latest Final Solution.
To the dedicated, resourceful and brave journalists of 1888 London and their papers. The writers are long gone, most of the papers have ceased to publish. Their contributions to the history of these fiendish events (many mentioned or quoted in part here) were invaluable to me as, surely, they must have been to Jack the Ripper.
To Robert Bloch, who was right, Jack the Ripper belongs to the world as surely as Shakespeare.