Synopsis
Discover the theories & facts surrounding the Whitechapel murders in David Rumbelow's "The Complete Jack the Ripper".It's 1888 in London's Whitechapel district, where one by one a group of prostitutes are brutally murdered. Opium smoking Inspector Fred Abberline is called upon to investigate these horrific murders & thru his visions track down & trap Jack the Ripper. David Rumbelow's casebook sets the crimes firmly in their historical setting, examines the evidence comprehensively & scrupulously, disposes of a number of theories & legends & relates the murder to popular literature & to later similar sex crimes. In addition he has had the advantage of access to some of Scotland Yard's most confidential papers.
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Donald Rumbelow lectures on crime and London history and is a former chairman of the Crime Writers Association. He is a London Tourist Board Blue Badge Guide. He is married and has two children. Among his interests are travel, theatre, collecting books and the English Civil War.
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