JACK THE RIPPER'S STREETS OF TERROR Life During the Reign of Victorian London's Most Brutal Killer

Matthews (Rupert)

ISBN 10: 1782122125 / ISBN 13: 9781782122128

Published by Arcturas, 2013

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Hardback. In the year 1888 Queen Victoria had been on the throne for nearly 50yrs and Britain was at the height of its power, influence and industrialised might. It was the 'Evening Star' newspaper that first alerted Londoners to the coming terror when it reported the death of a woman who had been stabbed 'in 20 places' and found dead in a tenement in Whitechapel. Drawing on a range of eye-witness accounts and documents of the time, the author paints a picture of the world's then largest city in the grip of panic, with gangs of vigilantes patrolling the streets, bloodthirsty lynch mobs out for revenge and women too scared to go out on their own for fear of Saucy Jack. The very best brains that the British police had were dispatched to Whitechapel to track down The Ripper as London turned into a city of horrors and terrors and victims, all dancing to a macabre tune set by a faceless murderer. Profusely Illus. + Index. 208pp. 4to. h/back. As New pictorial glazed covers in F. dw. A fairly heavy book which will require additional postage if shipped overseas.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: JACK THE RIPPER'S STREETS OF TERROR Life During the Reign of Victorian London's Most Brutal Killer
• Publisher: Arcturas
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782122125
• ISBN 13: 9781782122128
• Binding: Hardcover / Hardback
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Jack the Ripper and Assoc.

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Synopsis

This is a new take on the Jack the Ripper story. Focusing on the people who lived through the Ripper's reign of terror, it shows what happened when familiar London streets suddenly became the hunting grounds of a monster. This book looks at the crimes of Jack the Ripper through the eyes of the Londoners who had to survive his career of brutal savagery. It follows the way the crimes affected the local population, the rumors that swept the streets, the alarms, the riots, the persecutions, the suspicions, and the sheer naked terror of the awful autumn when Jack the Ripper stalked the streets. This is the authentic version of how the case of the Ripper pulled apart lives in London's East End.

About the Author

Rupert Matthews (born 1961) is an English author on the paranormal, and Conservative Party politician. He has written more than 170 books, and has appeared on television and radio as a presenter and consultant, mostly on history or military subjects.