For 132 years the ghastly and horrific murders committed in London's
East End by the infamous 'Jack the Ripper' have gripped and baffled
the world. The Ripper commenced his series of atrocities at the end of
August and continued freely until the beginning of November 1888 when
inexplicably the murders stopped… In all, five women were brutally
murdered and savagely mutilated in the most unimaginable way. The
killing spree centered in and around the impoverished rabbit warren of
alleys and rookeries of Whitechapel. The invisible killer was never
caught despite the very best intentions of the police and thousands of
would be detectives following the grim proceedings. Since those dark
days of murders committed by gaslight, the mystery of Jack the Ripper
has become the ultimate cold case among crime historians and arm chair
researchers worldwide, with a multitude of books, plays and dramas all
hoping to solve what London's finest Victorian detectives failed to
do… Given the space of time much has changed and the crime scene
locations and landscape in which the Ripper and his victims would
known would be in many parts unrecognizable to them. Equally to the
modern day Londoner or visitor the locations would be very much
largely unknown… until now. True Crime and Social historians,
Richard C Cobb and Mark Davis, return to the Whitechapel of 1888 to
see what remains from this dark time in London's history and to take
the reader on a step-by-step tour of the modern world of Jack the
Ripper, giving a detailed history of the victims, the crimes and the
police investigation. We also look at other victims (outside the
accepted five ) which may have been killed by the same man. Using the
original police reports, state of the art photographs, unseen images
and diagrams, they present the truth about what actually happened in
the autumn of 1888 and what remains of Jack the Ripper's London today.
They also focus on the ever changing face of London's End End, giving
the reader a real sense of how the past meets the present in arguably
London's most vibrant and cultural quarter… where the shadow of the
Ripper is never too far away.
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ISBN
9781526794796
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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