Paperback, 1st UK edn. Jack the Ripper is alive and well and killing in San Francisco...1979! But the inimitable English eccentric H.G. Wells is in hot pursuit, learning to live with a bizarre new world of cops, cars, credit cards and cocaine. Made into a movie starring Malcolm McDowell as H.G. Wells, David Warner as JtR and Mary Steenburgen. 320pp. p/back. Browned pp. and sunned covers. Nr. Vg.