Word: ripper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ritual in the Dark, and it will probably convince no one except Author Wilson. Ever since Colin (The Outsider) Wilson scrambled to fame out of a Hampstead Heath sleeping bag five years ago, he has been working on this first novel, loosely modeled on the saga of Jack the Ripper. During three months in 1888, the infamous ripper slashed six women to death, all but one of whom were middleaged, drink-sodden prostitutes. He was never captured...
...taking her place ("Now," muses the ungrateful Lulu, "the poor monster sits in prison instead of me"). Lulu decamps to Paris, philanders with gamblers, procurers and swindlers. The end comes in a sordid London garret, where Lulu, now a common prostitute, makes the mistake of bringing home Jack the Ripper and is disemboweled...
...City of Terror. Last week the young man was the object of a nationwide manhunt. Short minutes before Bus No. 8 took on its mysterious passenger, one of the goriest crimes had been committed since the days of Jack the Ripper. Creeping into the Y.W.C.A. near the Lee Bank Road bus stop, a killer had broken into the room of fresh-faced Stephanie Baird, 29, an unemployed typist who was packing for a Christmas trip to Scotland. He seized one of Stephanie's blunt table knives, hacked and ripped her body, and ended the sadistic orgy, which police claim...