Jack Ripper Final Solution First by Knight Stephen (1 results)

First Edition. Knight, Stephen, [1951-1985]. Whittington-Egan, Richard, Foreword. Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution. New York: David McKay Co., [1976]. First American edition. 284 pp. 16 unnumbered pages of plates. Publisher's red cloth very good, in lightly worn dust jacket. Internally clean. A very good copy. $35. * This book was a notable addition to the Ripperology genre, as it popularized the "Royal Conspiracy" theory, suggesting the murders were a British state-sanctioned cover-up to hide a secret, illegitimate marriage between Prince Albert Victor (grandson of Queen Victoria) and a working-class Catholic girl named Annie Crook. Although widely discredited by modern historians after the primary source, Joseph Gorman, admitted the story was a hoax, the book heavily inspired major pop culture works like the graphic novel and film From Hell.