
Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell
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Certain letters have been reproduced or quoted in previous books but Stewart Evans and Keith Skinner are the first to have read and examined every one. This book reproduces and transcibes all the letters, including the 'Dear Boss' correspondence and the horrific letter sent to the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee together with a piece of human kidney. The authors relate the letters to the complete story of the Whitechapel murders, tracing the hysteria and misconceptions that dogged both the police and Fleet Street during 1888-9 and providing valuable and revealing insights into the Victorian psyche.
For the first time the cases of three people arrested by the police for sending 'Jack the Ripper' letters are explored, including that of Maria Coroner, the attractive 21-year-old Bradford girl. Evans and Skinner also examine the letters of seven suspects, including Dr Roslyn D'Onston Stephenson and Nikaner Benelius. An original and responsible look at a case which has been hackneyed by so many authors, the story of the Ripper letters ends by posing a controversial question: was 'Jack the Ripper' merely a press invention?
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part One
- One 'Fifteen more and I Give Myself up . . .'
- Two 'Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper'
- Three 'The Writing on the Wall'
- Four 'Ripperism'
- Five The 'Enterprising' London Journalists
- Six A Letter 'from Hell'
- Seven 'Most Unwomanly . . .'
- Eight 'I will Rip a few more'
- Nine 'I'm Still Knocking about Down Whitechapel'
- Ten 'Good Bye Old Fellow Til I Return'
- Eleven 'They Summoned the Spirit'
- Twelve The City Letters
- Thirteen The Alienist
- Fourteen A View from Fleet Street
- Fifteen The Mysteries of McCormick
- Sixteen 'A secret Diary of Dr. Thomas Dutton
- Seventeen 'I'm Jack'
- Eighteen Suspects
- Part Two
- The Letters
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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