A classic Usborne title, updated for a new generation. Train yourself to be a great detective with this humorous, handy pocket guide packed with hints, tips and advice on how to be an intrepid, quick-thinking super-sleuth. Test your observational skills, learn how to crack codes, discover how to identify people by their fingerprints or handwriting, find out how to examine witnesses and look for clues. This is a great gift for any child with a sense of daring and adventure.
Drawing on their unparallel knowledge of the Jack the Ripper murders and their professional experience as police officers, the two doyens of serious Ripper writing join forces for the first time to write the definitive book on the case from the perspective of the police investigation. As the title declares, this is the complete investigation and is full of new insights and information on the murders and who might have committed them. The authors reopen every aspect of the case and offer a balanced account that does not favor any one suspect or motive. By viewing the case through the lens of police procedure, they have uncovered clues and links that have remained undetected for more than a hundred years. Evans and Rumbelow also extend the investigation beyond the “canonical” five victims and add other murders investigated at the same time that bring the total to twelve. This study strips away much of the nonsense that has accumulated since 1888 and draws the reader into the world of police investigation in Victorian London, reopening files on a case that will perhaps never be solved, but will always fascinate.
This book delves into the theories and facts of the Whitechapel murders, placing the crimes in their historical context. It thoroughly examines evidence, debunks various theories and legends, and connects the murders to popular literature and similar later sex crimes.
More seriously, he also examines the horrifying parallel crimes of the
Dusseldorf Ripper and the Yorkshire Ripper in an attempt to throw further
light on the atrocities of Victorian London.
