For nearly 100 years, the question has repeatedly been asked: who was Jack the Ripper? Credible Victorian sources including an Old Etonian police chief (Sir Melville Macnaghten), a famous writer on true crime (George R. Sims), a Conservative MP (Henry Farquharson) and, most incriminatingly, members of the killer’s own family knew that Jack the Ripper was Montague John Druitt. He escaped earthly justice by drowning himself in the Thames. Compiled from years of meticulous research, The Escape of Jack the Ripper moves from the suffering of impoverished Whitechapel to genteel London society, picturesque Dorset, the Inner Temple and the anonymity of the private asylums of France and England. The photographs include the newly discovered last known image of Druitt.