Jack the Ripper FAQ : all that's left to know about the infamous serial killer /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milwaukee :
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books,
[2017]
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| Series: | FAQ series (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (Firm))
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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.