Softcover. The Whitechapel Journal was founded by Stephen Wright, a Ripperologist who was based in New York. Stephen wrote 'Jack the Ripper - An American View' a p/back published in 1999 and limited to 150 copies. The first issue of Whitechapel Journal was published in Autumn 1996, and thereafter every Spring and Autumn until Stephen sadly died. The contents of Issue No. 5 includes : How to Write a Jack the Ripper Book by Stephen Wright; Romancing the Ripper: Myth vs. Man by Virginia Love Long; Theory - Plus or Minus Research? by John Kennedy Melling + Book Reviews and a Whitechapel Journal Crossword Puzzle. 25pp. A4 stapled magazine format. With 2 tiny 'rust' mks. to fr. cover o/w Nr. F.