Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History

ISBN-13: 9781405807128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 398 str.

Paul Begg

Opis

'A must-have addition to the shelves of anyone interested in this iconic Victorian mystery.' Gilda O'Neill, author of My East End 'The clearest, most accurate, and most up-to-date account of the Ripper murders, by one of Britain's greatest and most respected experts on the autumn of terror in Victorian London.' William D. Rubenstein, Professor of Modern History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth'One of the most important Ripper releases of the past several years...one of the best overarching accounts of social conditions in London's East End, as well as the history and internal politics of both the police, government and press organizations of the time.' Casebook: Jack the RipperEngland in the 1880s was a society in transition, shedding the skin of Victorianism and moving towards a more modern age. Promiscuity, moral decline, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, police inefficiency...all these things combined to create a feeling of uncertainty and fear.The East End of London became the focus of that fear. Here lived the uneducated, poverty-ridden and morally destitute masses.

Spis treści

Ch. 1: INTRODUCTION.  Ch. 2: THE EAST END.  Ch.3: EMMA ELIZABETH SMITH.  Ch. 4: THE BITTER CRY.  Ch. 5: MARTHA TABRAM.  Ch. 6: FLOUNDER AND FUMBLE, AND 'CATCH WHOM YOU CAN!'.  Ch.7: THE MAIDEN TRIBUTE.  Ch. 8: 'AT THE CRATER OF A VOLCANO'.  Ch. 9: ANNIE CHAPMAN.  Ch. 10: THE DOUBLE EVENT - ELIZABETH STRIDE.  Ch. 11: CATHARINE EDDOWES.  Ch. 12: DEAR BOSS.  Ch. 13: MARY JANE KELLY.  Ch. 14: THE GREAT VICTORIAN MYSTERY: WHO WAS JACK THE RIPPER?  Ch. 15: OTHER RIPPER SUSPECTS.  INDEX.

O autorze

Paul Begg is one of the world's foremost experts on the case of Jack the Ripper. He is the author of Jack the Ripper: The Facts, and co-author of The Jack the Ripper A to Z. He is the Editor of the Ripperologist magazine.