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Sarah/Katherine ([personal profile] truepenny) wrote2011-04-21 05:03 pm

Jack the Ripper reading list question

If a person has read Donald Rumbelow's book on Jack the Ripper (variously published as The Complete Jack the Ripper and Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook), are there any other nonfiction Jack the Ripper books that one ought to read? I.e., has anything substantially new been said since Rumbelow? (And should I bother with anything pre-Rumbelow?)

Please note, I'm not asking what books about Jack the Ripper have been published since 1975; I can find that out for myself. I'm asking for recommendations about which, if any of them, to read.
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[identity profile] oursin.livejournal.com 2011-04-22 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
What scholarship? Historians don't know whether to laugh or cry over her 'research' methodology, which appears to have been 'pick a likely culprit and then find evidence that [supposedly] proves his guilt' - a practice which in the average crime novel is usually applied by official forces anxious to clear up a case and eventually revealed to be in major error by the protag.