The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper: Key New Theories, Complete Chronology, Comprehensive A-Z, Essential Documents, Full Bibliography

ISBN 10: 1522634762 ISBN 13: 9781522634768

Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, 2016

Synopsis

This audiobook focuses on the countless theories that have been put forward with regard to the identity of the notorious Victorian serial killer and offers an extensive section presenting all the known facts in the case. It includes 30 essays by the most famous, often controversial Ripperologists putting forward their own theories.

It remains one of the few audiobooks to offer a series of alternative solutions to Jack the Ripper's identity and the truth behind the Whitechapel murders. But how many new theories and identities can researchers come up with?

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Review

Even for those disturbed by the phenomenon, it is impossible to deny the continuing fascination of Jack the Ripper. And we are not just interested in the historical Jack (whoever he was): as a source a grisly inspiration for writers, this most famous of serial killers has had a healthy afterlife. Legions of criminologists, professional historians and amateur investigators have produced a variety of fascinating solutions to the unsolved mystery of "Saucy Jack". Some of the proposed wielders of the knife have been bizarre choices--from the painter Sickert to even more blue-blooded candidates. But the 16 compelling arguments contained in this volume (one of whose editors is the crime specialist Maxim Jakubowski) could be said to close the book on Jack as comprehensively as possible. This hefty read, as gripping as anything by Thomas Harris and the like, is fascinating not least for the wildly contradictory theories put forward by such writers as Colin Wilson and Peter Turnbull. We are also, of course, given the historical facts in the first 100 pages and as well as ensuring that the reader will be firmly engrossed, Jakubowski and Braund allow us to make up our own minds. Perhaps the continuing interest in Jack is a result of the fact that we will probably never know his identity for sure. --Barry Forshaw

Review

Closes the book on Jack as comprehensively as possible (Crime Time)

Edition details

• Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance audio
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1522634762
• ISBN 13: 9781522634768
• Binding: MP3 CD
• Editor: Jakubowski Maxim, Braund Nathan