Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer

Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer
ISBN-10
1848847335
ISBN-13
9781848847330
Series
Jack the Ripper
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2009-11-01
Publisher
Grub Street Publishers
Author
M. J. Trow

Description

The definitive investigation, “full of colorful details and sensational speculations—for those who enjoy whodunits with a bit of real history” (Book News). For more than a hundred and twenty years, the identity of the Whitechapel murderer known to us as Jack the Ripper has both eluded us and spawned a veritable industry of speculation. This book names him. Mad doctors, Russian lunatics, bungling midwives, railway policemen, failed barristers, weird artists, royal princes, and white-eyed men. All of these and more have been put in the frame for the Whitechapel murders. Where ingenious invention and conspiracy theories have failed, common sense has floated out of the window. M. J. Trow, in this gripping historical reinvestigation, cuts through the fog of speculation, fantasy, and obsession that has concealed the identity of the most famous serial murderer of all time.

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