No-one in the annals of crime is capable of arousing such passionate debate as the perpetrator of the Whitechapel Murders in 1888. Was he a demented Royal, a Masonic assassin, a sexually-frustrated artist, a member of the Czarist secret police, a crazed reformist or even an escaped gorilla? This revised and updated edition contains a summary of Jack's crimes, victims and the illfated police investigation. It considers many of the Ripper's proposed identities, bringing you up to date with the latest suspects.
The story's shocking twists and turns, augmented with real, sinister period photos, will make this dazzling, #1 New York Times bestselling debut from author Kerri Maniscalco impossible to forget!
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.
The Complete Jack the Ripper lays out all the evidence in the most comprehensive summary ever written about the Ripper.
... Kari Wuher (Maggie Becket), Suzanne Mara (Doctor Punch), Frank Castina (Wonk), David Purdham (Doctor Bolivar), Brigid Brannagh (Erin), Holly R. Claman (Anne), Brian McNamara (Inspector Reed), Taylor Leigh (Mrs. Taylor), ...
... 215 Andrews ( inspector from Scotland Yard ) 184 Andrews , Walter 191 , 192 Arnold , Thomas 113 , 161 , 162 “ Autumn of Terror ” 29 , 113 , 180 Bedham , Edward 191 , 193 Berner Street 96 , 97-102 Birton , ( Constable ] 270 Blackwell ...
The first book to explore the life of Aaron Kozminski, one of Scotland Yard's top suspects in the quest to identify Jack the Ripper Combines historical research and contemporary criminal profiling techniques to solve one of the most vexing ...
Instead, the book sets the murders in their historical context, examining in depth what East London was like in 1888, how it came to be that way, and how events led to one of the most infamous and grisly episodes of the Victorian era.
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 authors of this book are all members of H Division Crime Club, the world's largest body of experts on the Jack the Ripper murders.
Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social pitfalls ...