Jack the Ripper: The Casebook

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Richard Jones has created an instant masterpiece in this fantastic book, in fact, it is more than a book!

Copies of original documents combined with an easy to read breakdown of the Whitechapel murders events and gloss pictures makes this a very enjoyable, all be it disturbing read.

Jack the Ripper: The Casebook takes readers on a tour of Victorian London’s underworld where the slayings took place, from street corner taverns to unsavory lodging houses.

This may not bother some people, but for me it really removes me from the Victorian atmosphere the book tries hard to purvey. He was 30 years old in 1888 and had worked as a fish porter at the Billinsgate Fish Market in London's East End, though he had reportedly been fired earlier in the year, which may have been why Kelly had resorted to prostitution. A very compact book filled to the brim with information about the great mystery that is Jack the Ripper.He has also written extensively on haunted Britain and Ireland, as well as on the myths, legends and folklore of the British Isles. He only reappeared in official records in 1906, when he was again granted a porter's licence at Billingsgate Market.