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The facts recreates the notorious crimes and police investigation of 1888 to provide the best available overview of the great victorian mystery, the greatest unsolved, true crime story of all time. He was fear in a human form, an unknown lurker in the shadows who could cross boundaries and kill. The facts paul begg robson books, august 2004 550pp, illustrated, bib. In this updated and reorganized book on the crimes of the figure known as jack the ripper, begg presents an astounding amount of facts, reports, and evidence about the whitechapel murders of 1888. The definitive history, and he is a coauthor of the complete jack the ripper a to z. Using contemporary documents, police files, home office papers and newspaper reports, jack the ripper.
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