JACK THE RIPPER The Final Chapter

Paperback. Reprint. (1st pub. 1998). Foreword by Paul Begg. When the Diary of Jack the Ripper was uncovered in 1992, it caused an uproar amongst Ripper historians. Here was a document purporting to have been written by the Whitechapel Murderer, a document which could be traced back to Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. Paul Feldman set out to prove it was a fake. Having spent 5yrs. and funded a massive research programme costing over £150,000, he felt he had proved that the diary is genuine. Illus., Appendices, Bibliog. and Index. 446pp. p/back. From the library of true crime writer, John Bennett - signed and dated by him. Lightly browned pp. o/w Vg+ with minimal creasing.