Stewart P. Evans

Stewart Evans, a former police officer, is a leading crime historian.  He has written many superbly researched and universally admired true crime biographies, investigations and reference books.  He has also, over several decades, built up the largest and best image bank of crime-related subjects.  (Please refer to the end of this section for details on the Evans / Skinner Crime Archive.)  Stewart has appeared as an expert on many TV documentaries in the UK and USA about Jack the Ripper, and was a historical advisor on Johnny Depp’s film From Hell.  In 2012, he received The Whitechapel Society Lifetime Achievement Award.

Two highly esteemed Ripper authorities, both former police officers, have applied their professional perspectives and techniques to uncover clues that had remained undetected since 1888.

Based on previously unpublished material, Stewart Evans has written a richly detailed biography of the dedicated and meticulous Victorian hangman, who executed over 140 men and women.

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.