THE DEVIL IN WHITECHAPEL The untold story of Jack the Ripper

Softcover. During the autumn of 1888, a series of murders occurred in London's East end that sent shockwaves reverberating around the world. The victims were all prostitutes, their killer, a knife-wielding assailant with an insatiable bloodlust. Within the space of just 3 months, this unnamed fiend would claim at least 5 lives. Then he mysteriously vanished, leaving behind a trail of mutilated corpses and a scar upon our collective psyche that endures to this day. the atrocities attributed to Jack the Ripper have become the stuff of legend. And like any legend they have become the subject of wild speculation and unfounded theory...until now. Join the author as he embarks upon a forensic examination of this most enigmatic of murder cases. Illus. 165pp. trade size softcover. Nr. Vg.