The Many Faces of Jack the Ripper
by M J Trow
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Archive photographs, current crime scene photographs, and psychological profiling techniques provide information about the infamous Jack the Ripper case.Tags
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This was compulsively readable, and unlike many Ripper books it gives you a good idea as to what it was like to live in the East End during that time, and how the police force worked (and didn't work). It also covers some suspects I had not previously seen. However, some of the photos were mislabeled, and I noticed a few inaccuracies and sweeping generalizations (i.e. "the Ripper was deranged and surgeons are not deranged; therefore he could not have been a surgeon," and "he could not have been an immigrant because the immigrant population was not violent") I would recommend this in conjunction with other Ripper books.
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Author M. J. Trow was born in Ferndale, South Wales in 1949. He graduated from King's College, London and Cambridge. He writes the Lestrade Mystery series and the Peter Maxwell Mystery series. He has also written biographies on Kit Marlowe, Vlad the Impaler, Boudicca and Cnut. He also teaches history and politics at Ryde High School. He currently show more lives on the Isle of Wight. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Jack the Ripper
- Important places
- London, England, UK
- Important events
- Whitechapel Murders (1888 | 1891)
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 364.1523092 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminal offenses Offenses against the person Homicide Murder History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
- LCC
- HV6535 .G6 .L65855 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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- (3.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
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