Jack the Ripper

✍ Scribed by Mark Whitehead and Miriam Rivett

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 160
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A look at one of the most frightening and mysterious serial killers ever known, Jack the Ripper, including an introductory essay, considerations of his many proposed identities, a summary of his crimes, victims and the ill-fated investigation, plus a guide to the Ripper's many fictional outings, from Hitchcock's 'The Lodger' to Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's 'From Hell'. A film version of 'From Hell', starring Johnny Depp, will also be released at the end of 2001.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Introduction - The Trouble with Jack......Page 9
In Hindsight......Page 17
‘Watchman, Old Man, I Believe Somebody Is Murdered Down the Street'......Page 24
‘Cool Impudence and Reckless Daring’......Page 33
Interlude......Page 43
Double Event......Page 52
A Study in Terror......Page 74
Jack’s Back......Page 94
The Suspects Assemble......Page 100
Ripping Yarns......Page 131
Ripper Haunts......Page 150
Index......Page 157