Let's put you straight (The Diary of Jack the Ripper - Shirley Harrison)

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Product:	The Diary of Jack the Ripper - Shirley Harrison
Date:	17/08/00 (25 review reads)
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Advantages: A good horror read

Disadvantages: Misleading

The Diary of Jack the Ripper is a modern, 20th century hoax. This is the opinion of by far the overwhelming majority of Ripperologists.

When you have read all inquest reports, police and home office files, newspaper reports and correspondence of the time (most of which I have on microfilm here in my home) it becomes apparent that the story revealed in the diary is simply that...a story bearing little resemblence to the actual facts of the murders of those poor women in 1888.

In addition, it contains many modern myths about the murders, which clearly shows that the information was gleaned from books in the 1980s rather than events in the 1880s.

If you want a good horror fiction story to read, possibly you will enjoy this book but if you want to know about 'Jack the Ripper' (or rather the history of the myth of Jack the Ripper) there are many factual books that would be more useful to you.

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