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10 best books like The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion (Stewart P. Evans): The Complete History of Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper: The Casebook, The Complete Jack the Ripper, The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London, Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes, Beethoven: Letters, Journals and Conversations, The Crimes of Jack The Ripper, They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper, Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889, The Jack the Ripper A to Z

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 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,...
Beethoven: Letters, Journals and Conversations
AuthorLudwig van Beethoven
ISBN0500273243
Ludwig van Beethoven (16 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a composer of the transitional period between the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He was born in Bonn, Germany.

Beethoven is widely regarded as one of the greatest masters of musical construction, sometimes sketching the...
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...
They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper
AuthorBruce Robinson
The iconoclastic writer and director of the revered classic Withnail & I—"The funniest British film of all time" (Esquire)—returns to London in a decade-long examination of the most provocative murder investigation in British history, and finally solves the identity of the killer known...
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 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...
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...
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...
Evidence
AuthorLuc Sante
ISBN0374523657
Non-Fiction. Fifty-five black and white photographs taken by the New York Police Department during the beginning of the 20th century, presented without commentary or context.

Edward Gorey, in an interview with Clifford Ross, said of the photographs: They're ravishingly beautiful crime...
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...
In the Lion's Court: Power, Ambition, and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII
AuthorDerek Wilson
ISBN0312302770
The story of Henry VIII and his six wives is a well-known example of the caprice and violence that dominated that King’s reign. Now renowned historian Derek Wilson examines a set of relationships that more vividly illustrate just how dangerous life was in the court of the Tudor lion. He tells the interlocking...
The Custom of the Sea
AuthorNeil Hanson
ISBN0471399779
Adrift at sea, your food and water gone, you are slowly starving to death: what would you do to survive?

On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from Southampton, England, bound for Australia. Halfway through the voyage, the crew were beset by a monstrous storm off the coast of West Africa,...
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...
Jack the Ripper and the Case for Scotland Yard's Prime Suspect
AuthorRobert House
ISBN0470938994
An investigation into the man Scotland Yard thought (but couldn't prove) was Jack the Ripper

Dozens of theories have attempted to resolve the mystery of the identity of Jack the Ripper, the world's most famous serial killer. Ripperologist Robert House contends that we may have known the answer...
Masquerade: The Incredible True Story of How George Soros' Father Outsmarted the Gestapo
AuthorTivadar Soros
A powerful, moving, and very personal memoir of "dancing around death" under the Nazi regime, by the father of billionaire financier George Soros.
"Life is beautiful," begins Tividar Soros in this powerful and very personal memoir. "But luck must be on your side." Nevertheless, when faced with...
Famous Crimes the World Forgot Vol II: More Vintage True Crimes Rescued from Obscurity
AuthorJason Lucky Morrow
Tired of Reading About the Same Crimes and Criminals Over and Over?
Are You Looking for Something Completely New and Different?
More Extraordinary True Crimes You Never Knew About With 41 Images

Famous Crimes the World Forgot Volume II uncovers more amazing true crimes that exploded...
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