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The Mammoth Book of the Jack the Ripper

By: Maxim Jakubowski
Narrated by: Kris Dyer
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This audiobook focuses on the countless theories that have been put forward with regard to the identity of the notorious Victorian serial killer and offers an extensive section presenting all the known facts in the case. It includes 30 essays by the most famous, often controversial Ripperologists putting forward their own theories.

It remains one of the few audiobooks to offer a series of alternative solutions to Jack the Ripper's identity and the truth behind the Whitechapel murders. But how many new theories and identities can researchers come up with?

©1999 Maxim Jakubowski (P)2015 Audible, Ltd Murder Social Sciences True Crime
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This book reveals the opinions of some prominent ripperologists on some of the ripper suspects

A must for any ripperologist .

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Gives a comprehensive overview of the murders and their context.
The essays set out a number of the theories and the suspects.
Well worth a listen

Interesting

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This is truly a mammoth book, very interesting and well compiled. In audiobook form, it is sometimes a bit difficult to keep up with all the information but you can always go back a few seconds and listen again. There is only one thing that I didn't like: one of the last essays contains a frankly useless remark that the Ripper victims were not attractive women, followed by an out-of-place comparison between them. This is not even presented in a way that has any meaning whatsoever to the history of the case and should not have made it into the final draft.

Very informative

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Really good performance from the narrator, switching voices with ease and not sounding too ridiculous. The essays themselves are a mixed bag, some interesting, some make a good point, some obnoxious. If anything this book is a window into the Ripperology community with the investigators or historians serving as the main characters, some of them coming across almost comically arrogant in their convictions. Many myths are quashed, yet some of the writers are reluctant to drop some ideas, but then will alter facts to shoe horn their suspects into the Ripper role. Enjoyable enough.

Alternative opinions on infamous crimes.

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In 1988 (the centenary of the crimes) I worked on a market stall, just outside the door where the Goulston Street Graffito was discovered -- and so began my interest in the case. I'm no 'Ripperologist' however; it's just a passing fascination that I revisit occasionally, which is what I did when I discovered this in an Audible sale.

Overall a fascinating collection of ideas, well presented and worth a listen.

Although, pay attention carefully, as you need to be aware of the subtle differences between speculation, circumstantial evidence and what we actually know -- for example, the speculation around Mary Kelly's locked door makes an assumption that the lock was not self-latching.

Comprehensive

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