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10 best books like The Complete Jack the Ripper (Donald Rumbelow): The Complete History of Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper: The Casebook, The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI, Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection, Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England, The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America, Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London, A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders, The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London

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...
The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI
AuthorColin Evans
ISBN0425210073
Before there was CSI, there was one man who saw beyond the crime-and into the future of forensic science.

His name was Bernard Spilsbury-and, through his use of cutting-edge science, he single-handedly brought criminal investigations into the modern age. Starting out as a young, charismatic...
Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection
AuthorColin Wilson
In 44 B.C. a Roman doctor named Antistius performed the first autopsy recorded in history—on the corpse of murder victim Julius Caesar. However, not until the nineteenth century did the systematic application of scientific knowledge to crime detection seriously begin, so that the tiniest scrap...
Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England
AuthorJames Ruddick
ISBN0802139744
In 1875 the beautiful widow Florence Ricardo married the handsome and successful young attorney Charles Bravo, hoping to escape the scandals of her past. But Bravo proved to be a brutal and conniving man, and the marriage was far from happy. Then one night he suddenly collapsed, and three days later...
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...
Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
AuthorSusan Tyler Hitchcock
ISBN0393327531
After killing her mother with a carving knife, Mary Lamb spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses; yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a new life. Freed to read extensively, she discovered her talent for writing and, with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, collaborated on the famous...
A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders
AuthorGary M. Lavergne
ISBN1574410296
On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman ascended the University of Texas Tower and committed what was then the largest simultaneous mass murder in American history. He gunned down forty-five people inside and around the Tower before he was killed by two Austin police officers. In addition to promoting...
The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
AuthorPatricia Cline Cohen
ISBN0679740759
In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen...
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...
Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes
AuthorMary S. Hartman
ISBN0486780473
This riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause célèbre, and this mixture of scandal and scholarship offers illuminating details of backgrounds, deeds,...
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 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...
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.
Features...
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...
A Cast of Killers
AuthorSidney D. Kirkpatrick
ISBN0525243909
On February 1, 1922, the distinguished silent-film director William Desmond Taylor was shot to death in his Los Angeles bungalow by an unknown assailant. Reports of strange activities at the scene of the crime circulated soon after. When the police arrived, was the head of Paramount Studios burning...
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...
Murder in the Adirondacks: An American Tragedy Revisited
AuthorCraig Brandon
ISBN0932052584
This 100th anniversary edition includes a new introduction, in which the author presents the theories that he has developed since Murder in the Adirondacks was published nearly 20 years ago. The Gillette-Brown murder case from which Dreiser drew his An American Tragedy was a sensation in its day....
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