A prankster writes a book (The Diary of Jack the Ripper - Shirley Harrison)

Member Name: clansoup

Product:	The Diary of Jack the Ripper - Shirley Harrison
Date:	18/08/00 (37 review reads)
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Advantages: A good story

Disadvantages: will miss inform first timers to this subject

The Diary of Jack the Ripper is one of the least informative books of the many written on this subject. In my opinion it is not even well researched, if the author has carried out extensive researched then all the evidence which does not fit into their theory (and there is a lot of this) has been conveniently lost or forgoten about.

I notice one argument for the validity of this story is that, there would have been uproar in the academic community if indeed this was a hoax. A great many ripperologist's have questioned the validity of this book, one a very good friend of mine. I was in the room when he recieved a phone call from the (then) owner of the film rights to "The Diary". He was thretened with the might of his publisher's legal machine if he did not change his opinion. I would like to add that his publisher knew nothing of this and sent an appology as soon as they found out.

I would recommend that anyone reading this book and wanting to be better informed on the whole argument of the identity, existence of Jack the Ripper, visit one of the web sites that ripperologists use to discuss this forever raging debate

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