Deconstructing Jack
Subtitle: the secret history of the Whitechapel murders
By: Simon Daryl Wood
Publisher: Simon Daryl Wood
Published: 2016
Place of publication: California?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9780692582435
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Serial murders Dalston (London, England); History; Serial murderers Dalston (London, England); Serial murderers; Serial murders
Description: "Will Jack the Ripper ever be identified? The answer is an emphatic "No". Jack the Ripper did not exist -- except within the minds of his creators and those who for one reason or another have strived for over more than a century to make the myth a reality. "Deconstructing Jack : the Secret History of the Whitechapel Murders" exposes the endless stream of lies, invention, political misinformation, self-publicity and opportunism which has kept this Victorian bogeyman alive in the darkest reaches of our 21st Century imaginations."--Back cover.
Notes: "First published as a Kindle Electronic book, March 2015. This edition updated and expanded 2016."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jack the Ripper Conference, Nottingham, England, 2015, Book of the Year
Table of contents: title: Cloak and truncheon; title: Bait and switch; title: Grand Trunk Depot; title: Questions in the house; title: Passage to India; title: A surfeit of suspects; title: Various tall tales; title: Notes in the margin; title: Pandora's box; title: Crimson crimes; title: The incident at Marble Arch; title: The black japanned box; title: Chronicles of crimes; title: The wave of terror; title: Secret ceremony; title: The Malta story; title: Blackmail; title: The mad snob; title: The rings on her fingers; title: Murder, mystery and madness; title: The writing on the wall; title: The mysterious Inspector Soyle; title: Tales from the Vienna Woods; title: Jack and the grapestalk; title: The woman from Rotherhithe; title: Quatuor Coronati; title: The woman who never was; title: The man who never was.