The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook

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Public interest has never waned in the hunt for the identity of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. This volume has been written to help those interested in researching all the documentary evidence pertaining to the case at any level. Providing an overview of the crimes and the police investigation, the two editors have collated all the known official records, supplemented by important contemporary information, to produce an encyclopaedia of Ripper research. It includes Home Office documents offering new leads as to the character and possible identity of "Saucy Jack".

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'Ripperologists will need no urging to get The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, possibly the most complete true crime reference book ever.' Time Out

Author Bio

Stewart Evans is a retired police officer who has made it his life's work to track down previously hidden or suppressed documentary evidence relating to Jack the Ripper. He is the co-author of The Lodger - The Arrest and The Escape of Jack the Ripper. He lives in Suffolk. Keith Skinner is a professional researcher and co-author of The Ripper Legacy, The Peasenhall Murder, The Jack the Ripper A to Z and The Official Encyclopedia of Scotland Yard. He lives in Twickenham.