ABSINTHE JACK Was Ernest Dowson Jack the Ripper?

Paperback. Aesthete, decadent poet, misogynist and violent drunk, Ernest Dowson has been long-listed as a Jack the Ripper suspect for nearly twenty years. The author takes a fresh look at the evidence, and examines the possibility that Dowson's consumption of epic quantities of absinthe may have turned him from a woman-hating brawler into the terror of Whitechapel. Illus. with a Portrait of Dowson + Bibliog. 61pp. p/back. As New with no creasing to covers.