![]() ![]() Rumbelow remains impartial describing which suspects could have most likely to have been the Ripper based on known facts and presumptions about their lives from later sources. Then as the Ripper vanishes the book settles in to looking into all the possible subjects that had been accused or since discovered through academic research on the murders. Climaxing with the final, most brutal murder. He follows up each case with an escalating tension as police desperately attempt to apprehend the criminal. As well as taking time to describe what was known about the life of the victim. Rumbelow then takes his time to examine each murder in detail, who discovered the body, testimony from passers by, descriptions of the injuries to the body, and exactly how the body and possessions nearby were found. Rumbelow examines the atmosphere of the late industrial revolution in London and the wretched poverty that existed in the districts where the crimes occurred. It's still the book I judge all the rest of them by. ![]() This was the first book I picked up when I became interested in unsolved true crime, especially unsolved murders. ![]()
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