The iconoclastic writer and director of the revered classic Withnail & I --"The funniest British film of all time" ( Esquire) --returns to London in a decade-long examination of the most provocative murder investigation in British history, and finally solves the identity of the killer known as "Jack the Ripper." In a literary high-wire act reminiscent of both Hunter S. Thompson and Errol Morris, Bruce Robinson offers a radical reinterpretation of...