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The Complete Jack the Ripper
The Complete Jack the Ripper | Donald Rumbelow
5 posts | 4 read | 5 to read
Discover the theories and facts surrounding the Whitechapel murders in David Rumbelow?s The Complete Jack the Ripper ? It is 1888 in London?s Whitechapel district, where one by one a group of prostitutes are brutally murdered. Opium smoking Inspector Fred Abberline is called upon to investigate these horrific murders and through his visions track down and trap Jack the Ripper. David Rumbelow?s casebook sets the crimes firmly in their historical setting, examines the evidence comprehensively and scrupulously, disposes of a number of theories and legends and relates the murder to popular literature and to later similar sex crimes. In addition he has had the advantage of access to some of Scotland Yard's most confidential papers.
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CassiM
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Victorian prudery was a recent concept, before men and women bathed naked at respectable seaside resorts... 🙃

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RamsFan1963
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Is there such a thing as too much detail? This book is exhausting, the information becomes mind numbing at a point because the author want to be through to every little detail. Complete is an understatement. It also didn't help that the narrator was a bit monotone.

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RamsFan1963
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I just pre-ordered this on Audible. I can't wait to listen to it, I've always found that era, and the legend of Jack the Ripper, fascinating.

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teebe
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I remember my parents reading this book and Helter Skelter when I was a kid. I always asked them to let me read them but of course they never did. They were pretty much the only books in the house I was never allowed to read and it drove me mad. Today my mom was cleaning out some of their storage boxes and found this. So I finally get to read it 😂 8-year-old me feels vindicated.

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AndiP74
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not sure enjoying is the write thing to say about reading this one

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