True Face of Jack the Ripper

By Melvin Harris

Book Overview

Melvin Harris was instrumental in exposing the so-called Ripper Diaries. Drawing on newly uncovered material on the man and the murders, and using modern FBI methods of tracing serial killers, Harris... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860199151
• ISBN13: 9781860199158
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Brockhampton Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The King of Ripper researchers produces another great book.

Harris produces another incisive analysis of one of the major contemporary suspects, Robert D'Onston Stephenson. His arguments as always are cogent and very readable. While Stephenson is still just a suspect with no concrete proof against him it still enthralls the reader to hear the story of his amazing life, from serving in the Italian army under Garibaldi to his associations with various occultist personalities of the late nineteenth century. Harris is a cruel master when it comes to theory, even his own, and Stephenson must at least be considered possible of the Jack the Ripper crimes. A must read for true crime buffs.

Above-average Ripper book

There are three or four suspects uncovered in recent years who could actually have been Jack the Ripper. The suspect mentioned in this book, Donston, is my favourite, not necessarily because he's necessarily the most likely, but because he's the most exciting. This book sets out an entertainingly lurid account of the life and loves of this twisted satanist who might just have been the most notorious serial killer in history. Few other Ripper experts share his view, but I don't really see why not, Anyway, surely it would spoil all the fun iof we did know. Harris also provides some valuable evidence about the blatantly fraudulent diary. Definitely a book for any Ripper enthusiast to check out.