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During the autumn of 1888 a serial killer stalked, brutally
murdering his way through the East End of London. Some called him
the 'Whitechapel Monster', while locals referred to him as 'Leather
Apron', but to the world he was known as Jack the Ripper. The
responsibility to capture this 'murderous fiend' fell upon the men
of London's Metropolitan and City police forces. Capturing Jack the
Ripper investigates the working lives of these men, and what it
took to become one of Queen Victoria's police constables, from
recruitment to training to life as a bobby. Join the police as they
go out into the dank, crime-infested, gaslit abyss known as
Whitechapel and try to capture Jack the Ripper.
Few things are more evocative of Victorian Britain than its
criminals; they are, together with railways, gas lamps and swirling
fog, vital ingredients in any Victorian melodrama. The truth,
however, was often stranger, more thrilling and more horrifying
than fiction. In this book, four eminent crime historians reveal
the realities of this aspect of Victorian life, illuminating not
just the criminals and their victims, but also the policemen,
forensic scientists and others who rubbed shoulders with the
nineteenth-century underworld. Notorious crimes - the Road Hill
Murder, the Balham Mystery and Jack the Ripper - stand alongside
long-forgotten, neglected cases; the most shocking and terrifying
cases appear next to everyday horrors, some stunning and some
merely sad. This unique work of reference deserves a place on every
true crime reader's bookshelf.
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