THE COMPLETE JACK THE RIPPER

Rumbelow (Donald)

ISBN 10: 0352398639 / ISBN 13: 9780352398635

Published by Star/Allen, 1976

About this Item

Paperback. SIGNED. An examination of the cases against 10 leading candidates for the shroud of Jack the Ripper. The author was a member of London's City Police with access to official police files. Final chapter includes 'Jack the Stripper', Peter Kurten. Illus. + Conclusion. 186pp. mass market p/back. With tipped-in label SIGNED BY DONALD RUMBELOW. V. lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. with no creasing to covers. Seller Inventory # 1724

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE COMPLETE JACK THE RIPPER

Publisher: Star/Allen

Publication Date: 1976

Binding: Softcover / Paperback

Condition: Fine

Signed: signed by author

Edition: First edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Discover the theories and facts surrounding the Whitechapel murders in David Rumbelow’s The Complete Jack the Ripper ... It is 1888 in London’s Whitechapel district, where one by one a group of prostitutes are brutally murdered. Opium smoking Inspector Fred Abberline is called upon to investigate these horrific murders and through his visions track down and trap Jack the Ripper. David Rumbelow’s casebook sets the crimes firmly in their historical setting, examines the evidence comprehensively and scrupulously, disposes of a number of theories and legends and relates the murder to popular literature and to later similar sex crimes. In addition he has had the advantage of access to some of Scotland Yard's most confidential papers.

About the Author:

Donald Rumbelow lectures on crime and London history and is a former chairman of the Crime Writers Association. He is a London Tourist Board Blue Badge Guide. He is married and has two children. Among his interests are travel, theatre, collecting books and the English Civil War.