Thanks to Rajat Srivastava for recommending this. I had read other Moore classics, but not this one. Phew- where to start? this is a big, complex , monster of a work! The main story is based on Stephen Knight’s Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution  (Grafton Books 1977) which suggests a conspiracy between the Masons, the royal family and the painter Walter Sickert, to cover up the ill advised, secret marriage of Prince Albert Victor to a working class shop girl by whom he had fathered an illegitimate child.  A group of whitechapel prostitutes have discovered the situation and are… Read More