At the time of the Yorkshire Ripier ease，Roger Cross had been chief crime reporter on the York shire Post for loyears. During this time he built an impressive reputation with his cover.age of major crime and investigative stories inBntain，Europe and the U.S.A. He was named Crime Reporter of the Year for 1976.1argely for his background work on the Black Panther case. Roger Cross worked on the sensational‘Yorkshire Ripper'case from the very beginning，and was afforded the confidence and full Cooperation of the Yorkshire Police.In the six vears that he reposed the'Ripper'murders forthe York shire Post,he forgedc lose personal links with the battalion of detectives ceaselessly at work on the case，and gained from them valuable and exclusive hard‘inside’in formation .He benefited enormously from long and very candid conversations with many senior police Officers. He delved deeply into every aspect of the case，interviewing and extensively researching both Peter Sutcliffe's background and the strategies used，and the problems encountered，by the police force assigned to catch him. Roger Cross has produced a fascinating and extra OrdinarV document，the fullest and best-informed account we will ever see of the most sensational murder case in history：the murders，manhunt，arrest and trial of the man known as the Yorkshire Ripper.