num_pages: 317
description: Discover the theories &amp; facts surrounding the Whitechapel murders in David Rumbelow's "The Complete Jack the Ripper". It's 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 &amp; thru his visions track down &amp; trap Jack the Ripper. David Rumbelow's casebook sets the crimes firmly in their historical setting, examines the evidence comprehensively &amp; scrupulously, disposes of a number of theories &amp; legends &amp; relates the murder to popular literature &amp; to later similar sex crimes. In addition he has had the advantage of access to some of Scotland Yard's most confidential papers.
language: English
title: Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook
titlecomplete: Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook
characters: Jack the Ripper
genres: Historical, Biography, Reference, Mystery, Nonfiction, Horror, Victorian, Crime, History, True Crime
ratings_count: 1878
publisher: Contemporary Books (Chicago)