Two experienced Ripperologists have applied their joint knowledge and expertise to the painstaking collation of all the known official records to produce the ultimate Ripper book - a narrative account of the murders encompassing all the known evidence. The most complete work on the Ripper case ever, contains: the entire contents of the Scotland Yard files covering the full series of murders; extensive press reports; witness statements and extracts from police notebooks; documents missing from the official files and many rare photographs. The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook is not only an invaluable reference, but is also a compelling account of the Victorian serial murderer whose identity remains one of criminology's greatest mysteries.
Richly illustrated and scrupulously documented, this reference to one of the great unsolved murder sprees in history takes reader to London in the 1880s when a string of prostitute murders paralyzed the country and shocked the world.
... East End murder rapidly spread throughout the capital, across the land and beyond British shores. No immediate suspect of any merit came to light although Kelly's recent live-in lover, Joseph Barnett, was closely questioned by ...
Isenschmid was a butcher, he was insane,and George Tyler, his landlord,had told them thathe absented himself from his lodgings at nocturnal hours. Detective Inspector Styles, nevertheless, was bound to investigate.
What amateur sleuths will find most fascinating here are the many facsimiles of contemporary documents, including letters allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper to police and elsewhere, police reports, press articles, and personal correspondence ...
Hugely respected, extensively quoted and widely regarded as the 'bible' of Ripper studies, The Complete Jack the Ripper A to Z is the ultimate reference for anyone fascinated by the...
The Complete Jack the Ripper lays out all the evidence in the most comprehensive summary ever written about the Ripper.
Report by Chief Inspector Swanson, 19 October 1888, Evans and Skinner, Sourcebook, pp. 137-38. 94. The Times, 12 October 1888, p. 4. 95. ... M. Connor, “Did the Ripper work for Pickfords,” Ripperologist, 72, October 2006, pp. 25-30.
Major Arthur Griffiths was the nation's chief administrator of prisons and a popular true crime writer. In 1898 he was preparing his ambitious and comprehensive two-volume work on the history of British crooks, crime, and coppers that ...
The second medical man is Dr Thomas Dutton, of Westbourne Villas, Bayswater, allegedly friend and counsellor of Inspector Abberline. Dutton is credited with the compilation of three handwritten volumes, 'Chronicles of Crime', ...
Scotland Yard hunted a serial killer shrouded in politics as the mutilator of East End prostitutes. This book uses historic sources and rare official reports to reveal dark and supernatural aspects of the Ripper case.