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The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper

by Maxim Jakubowski · 1999 · 512 pages

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Enlisting in the hundred-year-old debate about the identity of the world's first serial killer, this Mammoth investigation introduces the facts of the famous case and presents some of the most convincing, if conflicting, theories of the murderer's identity.

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Subject
true crimehistorybiography
Genre
crimehorrorbritish mysterymysteryhistorical fiction
Themes
history
Setting
19th centuryvictorianenglandlondonwhitechapel
Audience
adult
Length
long · 512 pages
Form
essays

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