Bell tower : the case of Jack the Ripper finally solved... in San Francisco
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [547]-552)

"San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist church was built amid the hollows, odd lights and drifting fog of what had been a burial ground."--BOOK JACKET. "Rumors of ghosts and orgies swirl around the church. Worse is the repeated, brutal fact of suicide and murder. The church's first pastor severed his own throat with a straight razor, the second pastor shot himself, the third murdered the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle."--BOOK JACKET. "The fourth pastor is "Jack" Gibson, formerly of Glasgow and London, who left Britain for reasons as mysterious as the deep wounds on his neck. He bears an uncanny resemblance to the one eyewitness description of Jack the Ripper."--BOOK JACKET. "After Pastor Jack takes over the church, two beautiful choir girls are found dead in its creaking bell tower: Minnie Williams, stabbed and crucified, and Blanche Lamont, horribly strangled, her nude body arranged as though in prayer. The immediate suspect is not the pastor, but a young medical student with keys to the bell tower. And Pastor Jack is only too ready to testify against his own parishioner."--BOOK JACKET. "True crime investigator Robert Graysmith pierces the mystery of the bell tower and unravels this first "trial of the century," which catapulted newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst to fame. It is a trail that ultimately leads Graysmith to the true identity of Jack the Ripper."--BOOK JACKET