Jack the Ripper - The Murders and the Myths

Five brutal murders shocked London in the summer and autumn of 1888. They have never been forgotten.The Jack the Ripper case has never been solved - the killer remains a blood-spattered silhouette. Although 'Jack' as an entity was almost certainly invented by an unscrupulous journalist, he became an archetype - decked in the top hat and cloak of a Victorian melodrama villain, stalking the fog-wreathed streets of the old East End. The numerous Ripper theories which emerged at the time tell us more about Victorian attitudes than they do about the killer's true identity.
In Jack the Ripper the authors follow the grim homicidal trails that have permeated popular culture since the Whitechapel murders of 1888. It tells the victim's stories in all their desperate poignancy, and explores the theories and suspects of the burgeoning field of 'ripperology'. Conspiracy theories and myths that swirl around the case to this day, from black magicians to the royal family, are considered, as is the modern forensic view of the Ripper murders as sex crimes, with reference to disturbing modern cases such as that of the 'Plumstead Ripper'.
Terrifying and unignorable, this is the ultimate book on Jack the Ripper.

About the author

Gavin Baddeley is an author and journalist, specialising in the darker side of history, and devilish and decadent culture. He's in demand as a speaker, consultant, and interviewee, and has appeared on television discussing subjects as diverse as the macabre in modern music, and the unnatural history of the English vampire.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Baddeley, Baddeley Gavin, Paul Woods
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781800329898
• ISBN: 978-1-80032-989-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; True Crime, Biography: general, TRUE CRIME / Murder / Serial Killers, TRUE CRIME / Murder / Mass Murder, Violence in society, Crime & criminology, TRUE CRIME / Historical, True crime: serial killers and murderers, Victimology and victims of crime, Violent crimes