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Jack the Ripper and the London Press - L. Perry Curtis Jr

Description: Genre: Crime / Thriller / Study of the way London newspapers reported on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888.

Newest Review: ... from the ultra-respectable (The Times) to the rather more lurid (The Star). Three of the papers were local East End ... more

... newspapers, some were published only weekly, others daily. There's a pretty good range, anyway. The book begins with a rather unpromising introduction. L Perry Curtis is an American academic, and the introduction includes a lot of dry academic language and a fair amount of dry academic argument. After that, though, things improve immeasurably. He starts with a brief account of the crimes and a list of some of the major suspects (it contains various little errors that Ripper anoraks will spot a mile off). He then talks ab...more

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Jack the Ripper and the London Press - L. Perry Curtis Jr: Ripping Yarns (1473 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 28/02/02 (Very useful, 262 readings)
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The Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 were a lot more important than they should have been. Five (or maybe six) prostitutes were killed in Whitechapel during the space of about two and half months, and their bodies were mutilated in unpleasant ways. The police never caught the perpetrator. And that was it, really. But somehow the crimes became bigger than they actually were. The public was outraged and alarmed, people were obsessed, there was something akin to mass hysteria in certain areas, and the end of the crimes coincided with the resignation of the Metropolitan Police Chief, the widely hated Sir Charles Warren. The press was largely to blame for this, of ...

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