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The pages of The Diary of Jack the Ripper reveal the unimaginable that more than a century ago, the legendary serial killer at work in London’s Whitechapel kept a record of his bestial mutilations of women. The writer of the horrific journal is James Maybrick, a depraved, drug-taking,... read more
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Late one May afternoon in 1889, three doctors gathered in Aigburth, a suburb of Liverpool, to conduct a most irregular post-mortem.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
Maps
Part One: The Discovery and The Investigation
One: "Perhaps in my tormented mind I wish for someone to read this and understand"
Two: "My hands are cold, my heart I do believe is colder still"
Three: "A dark shadow lays over the house, it is evil!"
Four: "There are times when I feel an overwhelming compulsion to place my thoughts to paper"
Five: "Tomorrow I will purchase the finest knife money can buy, nothing shall be too good for my whores"
Six: "I look forward to tomorrow nights work, it will do me good, a great deal of good"
Seven: "To my astonishment I cannot believe I have not been caught"
Eight: "Before I am finished all England will know the name I have given myself"
Nine: "God placed me here to kill all whores"
Ten: "When I have finished my fiendish deeds the devil himself will praise me"
Eleven: "I do not know if she has the strength to kill me"
Twelve: "I place this now in a place where it shall be found"
Thirteen: "The whore will suffer unlike she has ever suffered"
Fourteen: "Will give them something to know it is me"
Fifteen: "My thoughts are indeed beginning to give me pleasure"
Sixteen: "The will suffer just as I I will see to that"
Postscript: A watch is discovered
Part Two: The Diary
Facsimile of the original Diary of Jack the Ripper
Transcript of the Diary of Jack the Ripper
Acknowledgements
Principle Sources
Part Three: The Debate
Is the Diary Genuine?: Robert Smith
Report on the Diary of Jack the Ripper: Kenneth W. Rendell
Rebuttal: Robert Smith
Index
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime: Jack The Ripper. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Shirley Harrison (Author)
Awards edit
- Bram Stoker Award (Finalist, 1993: Nonfiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 364.15232092
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Europe › England › London
- Books › Nonfiction › True Accounts › Serial Killers
- Books › Nonfiction › Crime & Criminals › Criminology
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