Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0812235762, Hardcover)

"The London Monster, A Sanguinary Tale" by medical doctor Jan Bondeson is the true story of a late-Georgian sociopath who lashed out at women in a two-year crime spree until an unlikely suspect was caught, tried, and convicted in a sensational trial. With the pace of a great thriller, Bondeson takes the reader to brutal and bawdy 18th century England to join in the chase after one of the most outrageous and mysterious criminals of all time, the dreaded London Monster.