Ritual in the Dark

Colin Wilson. First U.K. edition. London: Victor Gollancz, 1960. The price-clipped jacket is in a mylar protective wrapper with publisher's original promotional wraparound band on the middle of the book. This Is missing on many of the first editions. No writing or markings in the book, 416 pp. 

This was Wilson's fourth book (1st novel), an excellent mystery with a serial killer murdering women in the Whitechapel District. A stark, tragic, terrible tale of a modern Jack the Ripper. The author transposed the crimes of 1888 to the 'present day', inventing a sex-killer every bit as vicious as the real 'Jack' - and has let him loose on contemporary London. Colin Wilson's first crime novel, which was published to great acclaim.