Quite simply, this is the Jack the Ripper “bible”, the indispensable book of reference written in an easily accessed alphabetical format by three renowned authorities on the case, and utterly dependable on every detail and aspect of it.
Sixteen key documents held in The National Archives have been selected and faithfully reproduced for a dossier forming a publication of great appeal and usefulness to students and general readers alike.
A stunning colour-illustrated book, which reproduces and comments on every letter in The National Archives purporting to have been written by the famous serial killer.
An invaluable reference book, which brings together in one volume all the primary sources relating to the Whitechapel murders – official records, pathologists’ reports, witness statements, extracts from police notebooks, and the entire contents of the Scotland Yard files, covering the formal investigations in 1888 and the years that followed.
The Diary of Jack the Ripper purporting to be a manuscript written in 1888 by a Liverpool cotton merchant, James Maybrick, who confesses to the crimes of Jack the Ripper, was a sensational bestseller in 1993. At the time, The Sunday Times tried to expose it as a modern hoax. Yet, despite extensive enquiries and research during the past 20 years, no conclusive proof has yet been offered to identify an alternative author of the Diary, nor has any reliable evidence come to light to explain how or why it was written. Ripper Diary is an intriguing, compelling and fiercely objective investigation of the Diary’s origins and story.
Explore Britain’s dark criminal history through the fascinating objects that have been hidden away in the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard, a collection that, although world famous, is so sensitive it has never before been opened to the public. Each object tells its own story: the briefcase with a concealed syringe owned by the notorious Kray twins; the gun Ruth Ellis used to murder her lover David Blakely; a burnt-out computer from the Glasgow airport car bomb; a picture from the property of serial killer Dennis Nilsen of the grisly drain that was blocked with human body parts; and the gun that Edward Oxford fired at Queen Victoria on 10 June 1840 in a failed assassination attempt. This is an absorbing, shocking and sometimes gruesome journey through 100 objects of criminal history, some of which have never before seen the light of day. Peer within to experience a unique insight into the crimes and criminals that have passed through Scotland Yard.
Commissioned for the Shire Library series, The Victorian Detective follows the trail of crime investigation from the earliest days before detectives were employed by police forces to the advent of fingerprint science at the very end of Victoria’s reign, and includes profiles on the important detectives of the era like Jonathan Whicher and Frederick Abberline.
The inside story of Scotland Yard’s landmark cases and the groundbreaking techniques that solved them, from DNA to ballistics, fingerprints to Identikit. Science and detective skill battle with criminal ingenuity in these dramatic, real-life events.