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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 The Girl in the Wood -- Chapter 2 There Was a War On -- Chapter 3 Joan Pearl Wolfe -- Chapter 4 The Lovers -- Chapter 5 Softly, Softly … -- Chapter 6 'Fit to Stand His Trial' -- Chapter 7 Half-Breed -- Chapter 8 Who Killed the Wigwam Girl? -- Bibliography -- Plates Section.

Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword Ripper Buyer - Beware! -- Chapter One Jack's 'Funny Little Games' -- Chapter Two The Men Who Invented Jack the Ripper -- Chapter Three 'Letters written by him, but none by me' -- Chapter Four 'Two or Three Hands of Writing' -- Chapter Five 'Dear Boss' -- Chapter Six 'Yours Truly' -- Chapter Seven 'O Have You Seen the Devil?' or -- Chapter Eight 'Surely the Lord is in this House' -- Plate Section -- Chapter Nine 'Carroty Curs' and 'Double-dyed Villains' -- Chapter Ten 'You can't catch me' -- Chapter Eleven An American in London -- Chapter Twelve The Women Who Did -- Chapter Thirteen 'Just a Few Lines …' -- Chapter Fourteen The Signs of the Zodiac -- Chapter Fifteen The Lusk Letter -- Chapter Sixteen 'Lewis Carroll was Jack the Ripper' and 'The Matrix is real - we're living in it.' -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline, the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and his fellow policemen fail to catch the most notorious serial killer of Victorian England? What was he like as a man, as a professional policeman, one of the best detectives of his generation? And how did he investigate the sequence of squalid, bloo.

Dismembered corpses are discovered scattered along the banks of the river Thames, a calculating clinical multiple murderer is on the loose, and the London police have no inkling of the killer's identity - and, more than a century later, they still don't. In this, M.J. Trow's latest reinvestigation of a bizarre and brutal serial killing, he delves deep into the appalling facts of the case, into the futile police investigations, and into the dark history of late Victorian London.The incredible criminal career of the Thames torso murderer has gripped readers and historians ever since he committed