Jack The Ripper: The Celebrity Suspects - Softcover

Holgate, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752447572 ISBN 13: 9780752447575

Publisher: The History Press, 2008

Synopsis

Rippermania has driven a 120-year-old investigation to identify the depraved perpetrator of the savage murder of five prostitutes in the East End of London. This book gathers together the band of famous personalities whose reputations have been tarnished by modern authors clamouring to name celebrities as suspects, accomplices or conspirators. Royal figures Queen Victoria, Edward, Prince of Wales, Prince Albert Victor, King Leopold II of the Belgians; prominent politicians Lord Salisbury, William Gladstone, Randolph Churchill; police officials Sir Charles Warren, Sir Robert Anderson; artists and writers Oscar Wilde; Frank Miles, Algernon Swinburne; Francis Thompson; Lewis Carroll, George Gissing, Walter Sickert are among those who have been implicated in the hunt for the worlds first serial sex killer, Jack the Ripper.

About this title

Product Description:

Jack the Ripper Rippermania has driven a 120-year-old investigation to identify the depraved perpetrator of the savage murder of five prostitutes in the East End of London. This book features personalities whose reputations have been tarnished by modern authors clamouring to name celebrities as suspects, accomplices or conspirators.

About the Author:

Mike Holgate has been a regular feature writer for Devon Life since 1998 and has written a plethora of local history and crime books, including Crime & Murder: Devon published in 2007 by Tempus. Mike is a part-time librarian and will use the library's archive to source high quality portraits of famous personalities and sketches of social conditions in East End London (not seen in any other Ripper book).

About this edition

• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0752447572
• ISBN 13: 9780752447575
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128