I, Ripper : A Novel (Paperback)

from jmoncton

Everyone knows the name Jack the Ripper, and we all know that he murdered poor London prostitutes and was never caught, but what we don't know is what type of person he was, Was he upper class? What made him kill all those women? How did he escape and what happened to him? Stephen Hunter takes us...

from alanteder

This is an inventive book by Stephen Hunter which is completely outside of his Bob Lee Swagger series (a pause of thanks that Bob isn't used to solve the Jack the Ripper murders). Instead we have the story through through 3 diaries/series of letters: the Ripper, a journalist and a London 'working...

from Stardust_Fiddle

Approaching the nineteenth century's most infamous serial killer in a unique and disquieting manner, Stephen Hunter's "I, Ripper" pulls out all of the stops to create an incendiary tale of madness and mayhem. The story of those fatal 1888 months comes primarily from two perspectives: that of Jack...

from pennsylady

The publisher has a worthy description of this novel. "I, Ripper is a vivid reimaging of Jack's personal story entwined with that of an Irish journalist who covered the case, knew the principals, charted the investigation, and at last, stymied, went off in a bold new direction"--Publisher. -- Fic...

from ChristineEllei

** I received this in a Goodreads "First Reads" giveaway **JEBJeb is a young newspaperman working for the Star, an afternoon newspaper fighting for readers and their pennies among the more than fifty newspapers coming off the presses and then hawked by the newsboys of London in the late 1800's. H...