The Complete Jack The Ripper: Revised Edition (inscribed to Basil Copper)

Rumbelow, Donald

ISBN 10: 0140113754 / ISBN 13: 9780140113754

Published by Penguin Books: London, 1988

About this Item

310 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BASIL COPPER AND HIS WIFE/''to Annie and Basil, When I Laugh Loudest Hay Aint Y, Don'' and signed in full by the author on the title page. Page edges browning, a near fine (NF) copy.

Seller Inventory # 51139

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Jack The Ripper: Revised Edition (inscribed to Basil Copper)
• Publisher: Penguin Books: London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140113754
• ISBN 13: 9780140113754
• Binding: Trade paperback original
• Edition: Reprint.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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.

About the Author

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.