JACK THE RIPPER

Whitehead (Mark) & Rivett (Miriam)

ISBN 10: 1903047692 / ISBN 13: 9781903047699

Published by Pocket Essentials, 2001

About this Item

Small p/back. Almost everything you need to know in one essential guide. As well as an introductory essay, this book considers many of the Ripper's proposed identities, a summary of his crimes, victims and the ill-fated investigation, plus a guide to the Ripper's many fictional outings, from Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Lodger', to Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's 'From Hell'. 96pp. small format p/b. F. with no creasing to covers.

Seller Inventory # 20004

Bibliographic Details

• Title: JACK THE RIPPER
• Publisher: Pocket Essentials
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903047692
• ISBN 13: 9781903047699
• Binding: Softcover / Paperback
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Jack the Ripper and Assoc.

About this title

Synopsis

So who was Jack the Ripper? 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 misogynist don, a member of the Czarist secret police, a crazed reformist or even an escaped gorilla? Over a hundred years have passed since this unknown killer murdered East End prostitutes under the very noses of the police and yet we seem no closer to uncovering the Ripper's identity. Countless volumes have been written by warring researchers, seemingly unable to agree even on the number of his victims. Is it possible that we will ever know the truth or is the Ripper destined to remain an enigma, his place in history secured as both an English-heritage crime icon and a universal bogeyman? What's in this book? As well as an introductory essay, there are considerations of many of the Ripper's proposed identities, a summary of his crimes, victims and the ill-fated investigation, plus a guide to the Ripper's many fictional outings, from Hitchcock's The Lodger to Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell.

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