This work surveys the literary, film, television, and radio treatments of Jack the Ripper and his crimes. The works of fiction are thoroughly analyzed, as are the major nonfiction works that have offered various theories about the Ripper's identity. Works whose narratives are obviously inspired ...
He has been the subject of hundreds of books and several films but his identity remains a mystery. Suspects have included the eminent Victorian doctor Sir William Gull, royal gynecologist Sir John Williams and the painter Walter Sickert. Conspiracy theories abound, involving Masonic, Jewish and ...
Reviews the books "The Mask of Red Death," by Harold Schechter and "A Mourning in Autumn," by Harker Moore. Suggestion that ever since Jack the Ripper terrorized London in 1888, he has inspired numerous novels and works of nonfiction.Klett...