Jack the Ripper reading list question

[truepenny]

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.

Comments

[oursin.livejournal.com]

There's definitely a feeling that even if one were approaching it as a case-study of East End life and the culture of prostitution at the period, the questions one got asked would still be about Who Was the Ripper. Sigh.

[wicked-witchery.livejournal.com]

I agree, City of Dreadful Night was very good. And I would say, from my perspective, the question of who Jack the Ripper was is not nearly as interesting or enlightening as what he was and continues to be, symbolically.