Jack The Ripper

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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 sexually-frustrated artist, a member of the Czarist secret police, a crazed reformist or even an escaped gorilla This revised and updated edition contains a summary of Jack's crimes, victims and the illfated police investigation. It considers many of the Ripper's proposed identities, bringing you up to date with the latest suspects.

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If nothing else, this makes great background reading for the new Ripper movie, From Hell, which is released in the spring -- Jonathan Heawood * Guardian Online *

Author Bio

Mark Whitehead is the co-author (with Miriam Rivett) of the Pocket Essential Jack the Ripper and author of Pocket Essentials on Slasher Movies, Roger Corman and Animation. Miriam Rivett is a lecturer in media and publishing at Middlesex University where she teaches a course on crime.