Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror (häftad, eng)

An exploration of the Jack the Ripper murders through the eyes of the Londoners who lived through it, including eye-witness accounts and inquest testimonies.

The shocking murders carried out by an unknown serial killer in London''s East End in during the autumn of 1888 dominated the news and public imagination at the time and have continued to exert a baleful influence ever sinceBut what was it like to live through those terrifying weeks? No matter what precautions the locals took, the killings continued.

Featuring eye-witness accounts, photographs and documents of the time, this book looks at the crimes of Jack the Ripper and their impact on the people of Victorian LondonIt follows the way the crimes affected the local population, the rumours that swept the streets, the alarms, the riots, the persecutions, the suspicions and the sheer naked terror of the awful autumn when Jack the Ripper stalked the streets.