Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates
by Stewart P. Evans
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History. True Crime. Nonfiction. In 1888 the dreaded figure of Jack the Ripper stalked London's East End murdering prostitutes. His crimes set in motion a huge police operation and have held a dark fascination over the public's imagination for over a century, yet his identity has never been proved. Now, for the first time, two leading Ripper experts have joined forces to treat the case like a police investigation. Drawing on their unparalleled knowledge of the Jack the Ripper murders and show more their professional experience as police officers, they uncover clues that have remained undetected for over a hundred years. There are five 'canonical' Ripper victims, yet Scotland Yard's 'Whitechapel Murders' files include another six suspected victims. Drawing the reader into the world of police investigation in Victorian London, Evans and Rumbelow reveal the conflict between the City and Metropolitan forces and the ridicule heaped on the police by the press. Investigating each murder, they conclude that only four of the eleven victims were actually killed by the Ripper. Perhaps most tellingly, they question the motives behind the destruction of evidence – particularly the message 'The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing', which was chalked on the wall near one murder site and rubbed out on order of the Chief Commissioner – and ask whether the enigmatic Dr Robert Anderson, officer in charge of the investigation, knew the Ripper's true identity. Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates strips away much of the nonsense that has accumulated since 1888 and reopens files on a case that will perhaps never be fully solved but will always fascinate. show lessTags
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- Jack the Ripper; Sir Charles Warren; Inspector Frederick Abberline; Sir Robert Anderson; Inspector Walter Andrews; P.C. James Harvey (show all 42); John George Littlechild (Chief Inspector); Sir Melville Macnaghten; Commissioner James Monro; Inspector Edmund Reid; Detective Constable Robert Sagar; Donald Sutherland Swanson (Chief Inspector); Sergeant William Thick; P.C. Edward Watkins; Chief Constable Adolphus Frederick Williamson; Sir Edmund Henderson; Montague John Druitt; George R. Sims; Sir Edward Bradford; Mary Ann Nichols; Annie Chapman; Elizabeth Stride; Catherine Eddowes; Mary Jane Kelly; Martha Tabram; Emma Elizabeth Smith; Rose Mylett; Alice McKenzie; Frances Coles; Wynne Edwin Baxter; George Bagster Phillips; Dr Thomas Bond; James Thomas Sadler; Aaron Kosminski; Michael Ostrog; John Pizer; Francis Tumblety; William Henry Bury; Robert D'Onston Stephenson; Jacob Isenschmid; Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff; Thomas Horrocks Openshaw
- Important places
- London, England, UK; Whitechapel, London, England, UK
- Important events
- Victorian Era (1837 | 1901); Whitechapel Murders (1888 | 1891)
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
- 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 .G73 .L663 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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- (4.40)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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