MRS MAYBRICK'S CASE

Softcover. The author was an expert on insanity who appeared as an expert witness in many trials both in this country and in America. He described himself as a medical theorist and practical detective. In 1889 he boasted to the press that he had not only identified Jack the Ripper but singlehandedly chased him from England. In his 'Recollections of Forty Years' pub. in 1910, Forbes Winslow includes, amongst many other cases, a chapter on Mrs Maybrick (p141-p163) who had been accused of poisoning her husband James, and who himself became a 'Ripper' suspect with the publication of 'The Diary of Jack the Ripper' by Shirley Harrison, in 1993. This booklet reproduces Forbes Winslow's Mrs Maybrick chapter. Card covers. F. Extremely Scarce.