Jack the Ripper: The Casebook - Richard Jones

Let us, if we dare, transport ourselves back to 31st August 1888, Whitechapel, London. With over half of the East End's population crammed into a place of devastating poverty and social decay every day is a real struggle for survival. In extreme economic hardship, with 20 hour working days in sweatshops for minimum wage, the financial burden falls to wives and daughters who have very little choice but to prostitute themselves. Prostitution at the best of times is a dangerous game with thieving pimps, abusive clients and other territorial prostitutes to fear, but today this fear will take on a new form - an elusive and menacing villain is about to start a 10 ...  Read the complete review