Table of Contents

Preface vii Acknowledgements xi Prologue: Time Machine with a Trolley 1 1 All the Days of Her Death 5 2 Nightmare on West Princes Street 21 3 Pantomime Noir 37 4 Looking for Mr. Oscar 48 5 Discovering Miss Gilchrist 61 6 The Return of the Alien 75 7 The Granite Man of Peterhead 89 8 The Libelling of Dr. Charteris 101 9 Trench Warfare 113 10 Resetting the Record 127 11 The Fourth Guardian Angel 145 12 The Order of Release 166 13 The Day of Judgment 182 14 Codicil and Coda 193 15 If Not Slater - Who? 200 16 The Ladies of Lanark 222 17 The House that Jack Built 230 18 The Secrets of Lot 631 243 19 Retrenchment 253 20 Eighty Years On 267 21 The Mystery Solved? 280 22 In the Eye of Time 299 23 Odds and Endings 313 Bibliography 320 Index 325

About the Author

Richard Whittington-Egan is Britain's leading criminologist with a worldwide reputation. He is based in Malvern, Worcestershire. He is the the author of several crime books including the definitive work on Jack The Ripper.