Sir Robert Anderson and Lady Agnes Anderson by A. P. Moore-Anderson.

Publisher: Marshall Morgan & Scott Ltd, London and Edinburgh, 1947, First Edition.

Good hardback, no jacket. Blue cloth boards are rubbed, marked and bumped, stain to rear board, inscription and bookseller's stamp to ffep, small crease to corners, binding firm, light tanning and foxing. 173 pages, illustrated.

Sir Robert Anderson KCB (29 May 1841 15 November 1918) was the second Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1888 to 1901. He was also an intelligence officer, theologian and writer. Jack the Ripper investigation: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) was then just starting the investigation into the Jack the Ripper murders, which he thought were grossly over-sensationalized. Almost immediately after being promoted, Anderson went on vacation in Switzerland on doctor's orders, leaving the Metropolitan Police leaderless during the biggest challenge in its history. He was called back after a month because of increased bad publicity over the Ripper murders. About which, he later wrote, When the stolid English go in for a scare, they take leave of all moderation and common sense. If nonsense were solid, the nonsense that was talked and written about those murders would sink a Dreadnought. He also wrote that the victims belonged to a very small class of degraded women who frequent the East End streets after midnight, in hope of inveigling belated drunkards, or men as degraded as themselves

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