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10 best books like Jack the Ripper: The Facts (Paul Begg): The Complete History of Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper: The Casebook, Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook, London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God, The Victorian Underworld, The Complete Jack the Ripper, Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust, The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London, The Crimes of Jack The Ripper, Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889

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: The Casebook
AuthorRichard Jones
Investigate one of the most compelling killers of all time! Jack the Ripper: The Casebook takes readers on a tour of Victorian London’s underworld where the slayings took place, from street corner taverns to unsavory lodging houses. One by one the murder victims are revealed, the circumstances...
Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook
AuthorSean Tejaratchi
ISBN0922915296
Books to dare someone to read on public transport : this one and the Complete Works of Gottfried Helnwein - this guy:



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This book is proof that sometimes I do go a little click crazy. When it arrived I said “I didn’t order that” but of course I had.

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London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God
AuthorJerry White
ISBN0712600302
London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. It was a century of genius - of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday, Disraeli and Dickens. Jerry...
The Victorian Underworld
AuthorDonald Serrell Thomas
ISBN0814782388
Donald Thomas shows us, through the eyes of its inhabitants, the teeming underbelly of a world more often associated with gentility and high culture. Defined by night houses and cigar divans, populated by street people like the running-patterer with his news of murder, and entertainers like the Fire...
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,...
Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
AuthorEva Fogelman
ISBN0385420285
In this brilliantly researched and insightful book, psychologist Eva Fogelman presents compelling stories of rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust--and offers a revealing analysis of their  motivations. Based on her extensive experience as a therapist treating Jewish survivors of the Holocaust...
The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
AuthorSarah Wise
ISBN0805078495
"A work of great skill and sympathy, a meditation on one of the sorrowful mysteries once to be found on the streets of London. For any student of the city and its secret life, it is indispensable reading."
-Peter Ackroyd, The Times (London)

Before his murder in 1831, the "Italian boy" was...
The Crimes of Jack The Ripper
AuthorPaul Roland
ISBN0785823107
This is a harrowing read, I have to say. I thought it would be a good thing to add to my reading list; after all, the Whitechapel murder spree is a crucial moment in history in many ways. But it's intriguing, revolting and infuriating all at once to read the story of such ghastly crimes knowing that the culprit...
Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889
AuthorRick Geary
ISBN1561633089
*Book source ~ Library

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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 Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion
AuthorStewart P. Evans
ISBN0786707682
This singular encyclopedic work offers the ultimate in Ripper resources. Solidly researched and profusely illustrated, collated from all the known official records and supplemented by contemporary press reports, it presents for the first time, in one volume, a prime-source reference book on...
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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Amelia Dyer: Angel Maker
AuthorAlison Rattle
ISBN0233002243
See this lady? You would NOT want to lock horns with her. You certainly wouldn't give her your baby. But in the late nineteenth century, that's exactly what a lot of women did. Why? Because in an era when having a child out of wedlock was so severely frowned upon, Amelia Dyer took advantage of this. She advertised...
The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale
AuthorJan Bondeson
ISBN0306811588
"The facts in this case are so bizarre that no novelist would have dared to invent them," said the Philadelphia Inquirer. Indeed. A century before Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London, another predator held sway: a "vulgar-looking man" who slashed at female pedestrians with a knife while uttering...
The Magnificent Spilsbury and the case of the Brides in the Bath
AuthorJane Robins
ISBN1848541082
Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell, and becomes his wife. But marriage soon turns into a terrifying...
Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Murderer
AuthorTerry Lynch
ISBN1840220775
Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. They never succeeded in apprehending him, and to this day the mystery of his identity remains an enigma....
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...
Capone: The Man and the Era
AuthorLaurence Bergreen
ISBN0684824477
In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of Chicago where Al Capone forged his sinister empire.

Bergreen shows the seedy and glamorous sides of the age, the rise of Prohibition, the illicit...
Napoleon And Josephine: An Improbable Marriage
AuthorEvangeline Bruce
ISBN0806522615
Set against the pomp and splendor of prerevolutionary France, Napoleon and Josephine is an enthralling tale of desire, betrayal, and ambition. It chronicles Napoleon's rise to power and ascent to the imperial throne; the first meeting between Napoleon and Josephine; and the subsequent stormy marriage...
The Worst Street In London
AuthorFiona Rule
ISBN0711033455
Halfway along Commercial Street in London, close to Spitalfields Market, is an anonymous service road, which was once Dorset Street, known as the worst street in the Capital. It was once notorious for the haunt of thieves, con-men, pimps, prostitutes and murderers, most notably Jack the Ripper. This...
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...
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...
A Criminal History of Mankind
AuthorColin Wilson
ISBN1845600029
Colin Wilson tells the story of human violence from Peking Man to the Mafia - taking into account the calculated sadism of the Assyrians, the opportunism of the Greek pirates, the brutality that made Rome the 'razor king of the Mediterranean', the mindless destruction of the Vandals, the mass slaughter...
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