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Jack the Ripper: The Casebook

10 best books like Jack the Ripper: The Casebook (Richard Jones): The Complete History of Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders, The Complete Jack the Ripper, Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters, And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America, Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell, The World's Most Bizarre Murders: True Stories That Will Shock and Amaze You, Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889, The Maul and the Pear Tree

The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
AuthorPhilip Sugden
ISBN1841193976
A comprehensive account of London's celebrated East End killer, revised and updated. The murders in London between 1888-91 attributed to Jack the Ripper constitute one of the most mysterious unsolved criminal cases. This story is the result of many years meticulous research. The author reassesses...
Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders
AuthorSpiro Dimolianis
ISBN0786445475
I bought this book for the collection at work, as despite the title it seemed like quite an interesting and scholarly book. I must admit that the only book I've read about Jack the Ripper is From Hell (which given the copious pages of footnotes to historical sources and modern ripperoligists means that...
The Complete Jack the Ripper
AuthorDonald Rumbelow
ISBN0140173951
Few stories have fastened their claws so firmly into the public imagination as the notorious and gruesome Whitechapel Murders of 1888. They were responsible for one of the most evocative legends in English folk history - Jack the Ripper. Best of all - for the myth-makers, that is - he was never caught,...
Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
AuthorPeter Vronsky
ISBN0425213900
The first book of its kind-photographs included.

Mothers, daughters, sisters and grandmothers-fiendish killers all.

Society is conditioned to think of murderers and predators as men, but in this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women...
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
AuthorSteve Oney
ISBN0679421475
On April 27, 1913, the bludgeoned body of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan was discovered in the basement of Atlanta’s National Pencil Factory. The girl’s murder would be the catalyst for an epic saga that to this day holds a singular place in America’s collective imagination—a saga that would...
The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America
AuthorGeoffrey O'Brien
ISBN0805081151
In the tradition of The Devil in the White City comes a spell-binding tale of madness and murder in a nineteenth century American dynasty

On June 3, 1873, a portly, fashionably dressed, middle-aged man calls the Sturtevant House and asks to see the tenant on the second floor. The bellman goes...
Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell
AuthorStewart P. Evans
It feels weird to be describing a book about Jack the Ripper as beautiful, but, in fact, this is a beautiful book. Also fascinating. It's about the letters--some 200+ in all--sent to the police and newspapers and, of course, the Central News Agency--purporting to be from Jack the Ripper. Evans and Skinner...
The World's Most Bizarre Murders: True Stories That Will Shock and Amaze You
AuthorJames Marrison
ISBN1844546675
From the stomach-churning to the truly bizarre, the details of some of history’s weirdest and most shocking murder cases are collected in this enthralling volume. The criminals covered here all perpetrated crimes with a peculiar twist, among them Enriqueta Marti, who kidnapped children then...
Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889
AuthorRick Geary
ISBN1561633089
*Book source ~ Library

From Goodreads:
Rick has researched this book extensively and presents, with his own inimitable tongue-in-cheek style, the jack The Ripper mystery as told through a journal of a fascinated Englishman of the day. Both factual and darkly funny, Geary's personal...
The Maul and the Pear Tree
AuthorP.D. James
ISBN0140131868
During a dark night in December 1811, in London's East End, a tradesman, his young wife, sleeping baby, and a shop boy were battered to death in their home. Days later, a pub owner, his wife, and a servant were similarly killed. No motive was found.
P.D. James, collaborating with a former colleageue,...
The Jack the Ripper A to Z
AuthorMartin Fido
ISBN0747255229
Compiled in encyclopedic format by three of the world's leading experts on the subject, this new edition of The Jack the Ripper A-Z is completely revised and updated to reveal all the latest research. Giving fresh and unbiased accounts of all the many theories as to the Ripper's identity, it includes:

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Jack the Ripper: The Facts
AuthorPaul Begg
ISBN1861056877
Using contemporary documents, police files, Home Office papers and newspaper reports, Jack the Ripper: The Facts recreates the notorious crimes and police investigation of 1888 to provide the best available overview of the 'Great Victorian Mystery', the greatest unsolved, true crime story of...
London 1849: A Victorian Murder Story
AuthorMichael Alpert
ISBN0582772907
A sensational story of murder, trial and public revenge influenced the great writers and commentators of the day. As much a book about London as the story of a murder books about London sell. Full of fascinating detail about mid-Victorian London in the vein of Peter Ackroyd social history at its best.
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The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper
AuthorMaxim Jakubowski
ISBN0786706260
its centerpiece is a collection of essays written by prominent Ripperologists discussing their favorite candidates for the mantle of Ripper. The prize must be awarded to M.J. Trow for his deadpan satire, undetectable until the reveal, putting forward the reformer Frederick Charrington. The sad...
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution
AuthorStephen Knight
ISBN0897332091
Who really was Jack the Ripper? Was he a solitary assassin lurking in the shadows of gaslit London? Or was Jack the Ripper three men: two killers and an accomplice? In this work the author investigates all aspects of this strange case shrouded in mystery and misconception. The discovery of the murders...
The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Discovery, the Investigation, the Authentication, the Debate
AuthorShirley Harrison
ISBN1562827049
For starters, I think a lot of people rated and reviewed this book based on whether they believed it's authenticity or not instead of rating how it read. I think some people went into it already sure it was fake. So what I'm saying is, I suggest you read it if you're interested in Jack the Ripper. Ignore the...
Jack the Ripper: The 21st Century Investigation: A Top Murder Squad Detective Reveals the Ripper's Identity at Last!
AuthorTrevor Marriott
ISBN1844543706
There have been countless attempts to solve the brutal murders committed more than 100 years ago by Jack the Ripper, but this most famous of British criminal cases finally benefits from a clear, professional eye to analyze the evidence with all the benefits of modern investigative techniques. Casting...
The Serial Killers
AuthorColin Wilson
ISBN0863696155
An ordinary family house in a quiet West Country town - 25 Cromwell Street, Glouster. Now known throughout the world as the House of Horror: The home of Fred and Rosemary West and the scene of one of the most shocking cases of serial murder England has ever seen. United by acts of unimaginable cruelty, the...
The Human Predator: A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation
AuthorKatherine Ramsland
ISBN0425213781
From ancient Rome through the Dark Ages to the burgeoning West to the open highways of urban America, from the unconscionable exploits of French religious zealot Gilles de Rais to such all-American monsters as Jeffrey Dahmer and Aileen Wournos.

Katherine Ramsland makes an eye-opening case...
The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper
AuthorJames Carnac
ISBN0552165395
This memoir was recently discovered and appears to have been written in the 1920s by somone who asserts that he was Jack the Ripper.

This person is James Carnac, this memoir written shortly before his death is an account of his entire life, including a few short months in 1888 when he became the...
The Killer Book of Serial Killers: Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia from the World of Serial Killers
AuthorTom Philbin
ISBN1402213859
Terrifying tales of the ultimate evil among us!

The Killer Book of Serial Killers is the complete resource for any true crime fan or student of the lurid, fascinating world of serial killers. Inside you'll find the stories of the world's thirty-five most notorious murderers, including an...
Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers
AuthorPat Brown
ISBN1893224937
A renegade criminal profiler and a forensic psychologist--the only female profiling team in the nation--have teamed up to write the most useful guide to serial killers ever created. While other serial killer books tend to conceal the clear facts behind complex technical language and psychobabble,...
Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers
AuthorBrian King
These compelling authentic documents are now available for the first time in one volume -- an aesthetic testimony to the emotion and logic of a murderer's mind, a mind filled with terror and hatred, absurdity and horror, pathos and iniquity."Brian King compiled these writings and arranged them in...
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