Interpreting the Ripper Letter

Trow, M. J.; Trow, M J

ISBN 10: 1526739291 / ISBN 13: 9781526739292

Verlag: Pen and Sword True Crime, 2019

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00095147428

Inhaltsangabe:

In the autumn of 1888, a series of grisly murders took place in Whitechapel in London’s East End, the Abyss, the Ghetto, the City of Eternal Night. The Whitechapel murderer, arguably the first of his kind, was never caught but the killings gave rise to the best known pen-name in criminal history – Jack the Ripper.The Whitechapel killer was terrifyingly real but Jack was the creation of Fleet Street, the gallows humor of a newspaper hack whose sole aim in life was to sell newspapers. And where the ‘Dear Boss’ letter, with its ‘trade name’ signature led, thousands followed.This book is not about the world’s first serial killer but about the sick, the perverted, the twisted souls who put pen to paper purporting to be the killer or suggested ever more lurid ways in which he could be caught. Innocent men were put in the frame by Victorian troublemakers who would be perfectly at home with today’s internet trolls, pointing cruel fingers in almost perfect anonymity.The book takes the lid off Victorian mindsets, exposing a dark and unnatural place as topsy-turvy as that inhabited by the killer himself.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: M. J.Trow is a crime historian who has written several books on Jack the Ripper and the murders of his time. One of them, 'Quest for a Killer' featured as a documentary for the Discovery Channel in 2009. He has conducted his own Ripper walks in Whitechapel and is a regular lecturer at the annual Ripper conferences held each summer.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Interpreting the Ripper Letter
Verlag: Pen and Sword True Crime
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good