Jack the Ripper in Fact and Fiction Author:Robin Odell In the autumn of 1888 the streets of London were streets of terror. The cause - a series of mysterious and apparently motiveless murders. Respectable citizens cowered behind shuttered windows and multi-locked doors. Ironically, however, it was not the respectable who were in danger. The victims were all drawn from the trade which necessity still... more » compelled to haunt dark alleys and doorways at dead of night - the prostitutes. Theories on the identity of the murderer have been many and various: that he was a fashionable doctor, even that he was a she - a midwife. Robin Odell has produced an absorbing factual reconstruction of all the crimes and a brilliant new theory, based on modern methods of detection, to solve the greatest mystery in British criminology. Most readers will accept his theory as the long-sought answer to a baffling real-life whodunit: as the most likely epitaph on a terror known as "Jack the Ripper in Fact & Fiction".« less
ISBN-13: 9781869928308 ISBN-10: 186992830X Publication Date: 8/31/2008 Pages:328 Edition:New and revised ed Rating: