JACK THE RIPPER AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA

Softcover. The author uses a critical case review of the kind that is now used to scrutinise unsolved crimes. He re-checks, re-examines and re-evaluates the facts, conjectures, newspaper accounts, eyewitness reports and official pronouncements. The book includes: Descriptions of the locations where the bodies were found. Detailed histories of the victims. Profiles of key police officials and examinations of police procedures, investigations, blunders and errors. Details of prevailing myths about the case. A meticulous evaluation of all the chief suspects. Comprehensive analysis of the existing literature. Discussions of written communications ostensibly sent by the Ripper. A closely reasoned and well-supported argument identifying the most likely suspect. Illus. + Maps, Chronology, Bibliog. and Index complete this comprehensive reference to a notorious chapter in British criminal history. 304pp. trade size soft cover. As New with no creasing to covers.