The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco - Hardcover

Graysmith, Robert

 
9780895263247: The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco

Synopsis


The year is 1896: The Jack the Ripper murders stop as mysteriously as they started. Five years later, in a San Francisco church, brutally murdered priests, choirboys, and parishioners begin to appear. The pastor, an English priest, bears an uncanny resemblance to the one eyewitness report of the sole survivor of a Jack the Ripper attack in London years earlier. But another man has already been arrested, tried, and convicted for the San Francisco slayings....

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In an age that has produced Jonestown, Jeffrey Dahmer, and high-school shoot-ups, we hardly need Jack the Ripper to stimulate our baser curiosities... Graysmith, a respected journalist with a particular interest in sensational crime stories, has proposed a link between the East End murders and some San Francisco murders five years later. Of course, he has no more "solved" the Ripper mystery than any of the hundred other would-be sleuths making similar claims. But Graysmith is a gifted writer whose rat-a-tat, driving style is ideal for a true-crime narrative. If his claims are exaggerated, he has nevertheless provided an exciting, gripping thriller that will be appreciated by Ripper buffs and those who enjoy a fine nail-biter.

Synopsis

Reveals the identity of London's Jack the Ripper and details his murders in San Francisco.

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