Jack the Ripper: The Final Chapter (Virgin True Crime) - Softcover

H Feldman, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753506378 ISBN 13: 9780753506370

Publisher: Virgin Books, 2002

Synopsis

SINCE OCTOBER 1992 THE 'DIARY OF JACK THE RIPPER WRITTEN BY JAMES MAYBRICK' WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN A HOAX. YET, INCREDIBLY, NOT ONE PERSON HAS MANAGED TO PROVE HOW IT WAS FORGED OR BY WHOM. WHY NOT? BECAUSE IT IS GENUINE. REMARKABLE AS IT MAY SEEM, HERE IS THE PROOF THAT THE JOURNAL WHICH CAME TO LIGHT IN 1991 WAS INDEED WRITTEN BY JAMES MAYBRICK - THE NOTORIOUS WHITECHAPEL MURDERER. THIS BOOK REVEALS HOW THE LARGEST AND MOST DETAILED INVESTIGATION ON THE SUBJECT EVER TO BE UNDERTAKEN LED THE AUTHOR THROUGH THE SMOKESCREEN OF AN OFFICIAL COVER-UP, VIA THE ROYALS AND THE MASONS, TO THE TRUE PROVENCE OF THE DIARY, JACK THE RIPPER'S WATCH AND, ULTIMELY, HIS IDENTITY. AS WELL AS PROVIDING THE LONG AWAITED SOLUTION TO ONE OF THE MOST ENDURING MYSTERIES IN THE HISTORY OF CRIME, THIS IS ALSO THE STORY OF THE MAN AT IT'S CENTRE, JAMES MAYBRICK| HOW HE DIED, HOW HIS WIFE WAS FALSELY IMPRISONED FOR HIS MURDER AND WHO THE REAL MURDERER OF JACK THE RIPPER WAS. THIS SAME FACINATING STORY DRAWS IN TOW PEOPLE STILL ALIVE TODAY - ONE ILLEGITIMATELY DESCENDED FROM JAMES MAYBRICK; THE OTHER FROM HIS WIFE, FLORENCE - WHO UNTIL NOW, DESPITE THE POTENTIAL FINACIAL REWARD, HAVE BATTLED TO CONCEAL THE TRUTH AND PROTECT THEIR FAMILIES. JACK THE RIPPER: THE FINAL CHAPTER PRESENTS CRUCIAL EVIDENCE FROM THE HOME OFFICE FILES, HARD FACTS AND UNDENIABLE TRUTH.

About this title

About the Author

Paul H Feldman became aware of the purported Diary of Jack the Ripper while researching for a video production in 1992. Although he initially viewed the diary with a great deal of scepticism his early research surprised him enough to inspire the most detailed and expensive investigation into the Whitechapel murderer.

From the Back Cover

The Diary of Jack the Ripper, which came to light in 1991, revealed the identity of the world's most famous serial killer as Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. the diary was widely dismissed as a hoax at the time, yet it has never been proven to be a forgery.
This, argues Paul Feldman, is because the diary is genuine.
jack the Ripper - The Final Chapter provides indeniable proof that the haunting diary was indeed written by james Maybrick, the man who committed the gruesome Whitechapel murders and came to be known as Jack the Ripper.
The Final Chapter tells how the largest. most expensive Ripper investigation ever undertaken led author Paul Feldman through the smoke screen of an official cover-up, via the royals and the Masons, to establish the true provenance of the sinister diary and they mysterious 'Ripper Watch', leaving no doubt that James Maybrick was Jack the Ripper.
In his balanced account, Feldman uncovers crucial evidence about the murders and presents sensational revelations from the Ripper's living descendants.
Many books claim to have uncovered the true identity of Jack the Ripper, but Feldman's afrument remains overwhelmingly convincing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0753506378
• ISBN 13: 9780753506370
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464