Jack the Ripper FAQ : all that's left to know about the infamous serial killer /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Dave, 1960 January 3- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milwaukee : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, [2017]
Series:FAQ series (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (Firm))
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: questions, answers? : answers, questions
  • Author's note
  • The nemesis of neglect : welcome to whitechapel
  • Victorian England's daughters of joy : prostitution in London's East End
  • A London particular : the fog fiend cometh
  • The terror begins : the life and death of fairy fay
  • The ones who got away : and the ones that didn't
  • Murder by numbers : mapping out the murder mile
  • Firing the canon : the murder of Mary ann Nichols
  • The vigilante and the vivisectionist : the slaying of Annie Chapman
  • A nineteenth century identity parade : less a "whodunnit" than a "who-is-still-doing-it?"
  • The devil makes work for idle hands : the Macnaghten memorandum, and other blood red herrings
  • Abberline takes the case : the killing of Elizabeth Stride
  • The double murder (continued) : the death of Catherine Eddowes
  • Not so quiet on the West End front : the whitehall mystery and other thameside torsos
  • The Dover street demon : black magic in the White Chapel
  • A violet plucked from mother's grave : the ripping of Mary Jane Kelly
  • The horror never stops : the ripper rips on
  • Jill the Ripper : the lady was a sociopath
  • Frequently unanswerable questions : a twenty-first century identity parade
  • Apr moi, le debris : ripper lives on
  • Murder is money : hing in on crime
  • A very American murderer : the trans-Atlantic connection
  • Jack's journal : the killer kept a diary
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix one: The autopsy reports
  • Appendix two: Jack on film: a selected filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index.