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10 best books like The Jack the Ripper A to Z (Martin Fido): The Complete History of Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper: The Casebook, The Complete Jack the Ripper, The Good-Bye Door: The Incredible True Story of America's First Female Serial Killer to Die in the Chair, Vampire: The Richard Chase Murders, Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion, Jack the Ripper: The Facts, Amelia Dyer: Angel Maker, The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale

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 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,...
The Good-Bye Door: The Incredible True Story of America's First Female Serial Killer to Die in the Chair
AuthorDiana Britt Franklin
ISBN0873388747
The true story of the first female serial killer to die in the electric chair

Nicknamed "the Blonde Borgia," Anna Marie Hahn was a cold-blooded serial killer who preyed on the elderly in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine district in the 1930s. When the State of Ohio strapped its first woman into...
Vampire: The Richard Chase Murders
AuthorKevin M. Sullivan
By the time Richard Trenton Chase graduated high school, everyone knew he was strange. But no one had any idea how bizarre he'd become, or what dark impulses were flowing through his troubled brain. The transformation from the outwardly strange young man to the diabolical killer he ultimately became,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Handbook on Hanging
AuthorCharles Duff
ISBN0940322676
A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs...
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....
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...
Couples Who Kill
AuthorCarol Anne Davis
ISBN0749083573
What drives attractive male cousins to rape and kill ten young women? Why does an altar girl and her boyfriend lure innocent victims into their customized torture van? Couples who kill comprise only twenty percent of killers -- but they often murder serially and are responsible for particularly inhumane...
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...
Jack the Ripper
AuthorMark Whitehead
ISBN1904048692
Jack the ripper  This was a book I picked up at my local library that I've wanted to read it for some time. But never got around to it, so I put it down for reserve. There's a whole mystery to jack the Ripper. If your a cockney or from London it's likely you will know the case inside out. As it was one of those...
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...
Hunting the Devil: The Pursuit, Capture and Confession of the Most Savage Serial Killer in History
AuthorRichard Lourie
ISBN0060177179
Twelve years of unimaginable depravity. Ten days to obtain suspect Andrei Chikatilo's confession or he goes free. Certain to join the classic accounts of true crime, Hunting the Devil is the story of how a master detective, an expert in the psychology of serial killers, ensnares a cunning, seemingly...
Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers Up Close and Personal
AuthorJack Levin
ISBN1591025761
After twenty-five years of investigating, analyzing, and interviewing serial killers, their family members, neighbors, and even surviving victims, Jack Levin has become one of the world’s most respected experts on the motivations and modus operandi of dangerous criminals. In this gripping...
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