A Treasury of Victorian Murder: Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889 (Paperback)

from stephmo

At first glance, Rick Geary's volume on Jack the Ripper may seem sparse and nearly clinical. It is not padded with endless theories on the identity of Jack the Ripper, reasons for the targeting of the particular women or endless gossip about the lives of those investigating the murders. Comparing...

from AVoraciousReader

*Book source ~ Library From Goodreads: Rick has researched this book extensively and presents, with his own inimitable tongue-in-cheek style, the jack The Ripper mystery as told through a journal of a fascinated Englishman of the day. Both factual and darkly funny, Geary's personal take on this s...

from stephmo

At first glance, Rick Geary's volume on Jack the Ripper may seem sparse and nearly clinical. It is not padded with endless theories on the identity of Jack the Ripper, reasons for the targeting of the particular women or endless gossip about the lives of those investigating the murders. Comparing...

from ElizaJane

Rick Geary has given us a first hand account of the Jack the Ripper case through the eyes of a contemporary but unknown British gentleman who kept a meticulous set of journals. In these journals the gentleman followed closely the news of the killings, while occasionally setting down his own opini...

from sweetiegherkin

In this graphic novel, Rick Geary adapts a journal of an unknown person who was alive during Jack the Ripper's reign of terror and kept detailed records of the investigation, suggesting an intimacy with the police. While this was an interesting enough read for fans of true crime, I prefer when Ge...