One night in London, a girl who sells cigarettes topless in a nightclub gets brutally murdered after work. When the police make little headway on the case, her deeply religious parents turn to a deeply alcoholic private investigator. Similar murders follow, apparently at random, suggesting a serial killer is on the loose, whom the papers of course dub the latest RIPPER!!! When our hero stumbles across a solid trail of clues, the Ripper begins to slash a trail of bloody murder to his doorstep.This is not quite as sleazy or sensational as the cover would have you believe, but unless you're expecting the literary equivalent of New York Ripper or Giallo a Venezia, you shouldn't be too far disappointed. Anyway, you gotta love that cover--so early-'80s!
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