Tom Wescott
ASIN: B00IIWWS8E
Publisher: CrimeConfidential Press
Pages: 216
From the author of Ripper Confidential: New Research on the Whitechapel MurdersThis is Jack the Ripper's origin story.WINNER - Indie Reader Award for Best True Crime BookWINNER - Independent Publisher (IPPY) Bronze Medal Award for Best History Book 2014FINALIST - Indie Excellence Award for Best True Crime Book (second place)*Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of London’s East End from August through November of 1888 in what is dubbed the ‘Autumn of Terror’. However, the grisly ripping of Polly Nichols on August 31st was not the first unsolved murder of the year. The April murder of Emma Smith and the August murder of Martha Tabram both occurred on bank holidays. They baffled the police and press alike and were assumed by the original investigators to have been the first murders in the series. Were they correct? In this provocative work of literary archeology, author Tom Wescott places ...