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Ritual in the Dark

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COLIN WILSON'S CLASSIC NOVEL OF CONTEMPORARY MURDER

A wave of sickening deaths hits the streets of modern London. Young women, mainly prostitutes, are found strangled and mutilated. The police are baffled, the press outraged - not since Jack the Ripper has such a sinister brand of violent murders been unleashed. Is the culprit a homicidal maniac or a cold-blooded, calculating killer wreaking a personal vendetta on a corrupt and callous society?

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In this best-selling, blood-blanching chiller, Colin Wilson examines the murderous motives of a depraved mind and creates a story of biting realism which will stagger the imagination and shock the intellect...

Themes
philosophy
Setting
1960s
Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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