num_pages: 208
description: A chronicle of one of the vilest murders in Canadian history.One brilliant October day in 1894 a drifter carrying a black valise met thirteen-year-old Jessie Keith on the railroad tracks and slashed her in such a way that people thought Jack the Ripper must have fled London England to wander loose in rural Ontario.The Man with the Black Valise traces the killers route through three Ontario counties  a trajectory compiled by Detective John Wilson Murray. Though emotions ran feverishly high the regions farmers and townsfolk kept their heads to try to bring the killer to justice.
language: English
title: The Man with the Black Valise: Tracking the Killer of Jessie Keith
publisher: Dundurn Press