Read Abberline: The Man Who Hunted Jack the Ripper Online
Authors: Peter Thurgood
A mortuary photograph of Annie Chapman. (Wikimedia Commons)
A painting of the mortuary photograph of Catherine Eddowes. (Peter Thurgood)
Miller’s Court, the location of the murder of Mary Kelly. (Wikimedia Commons)
A cartoon criticising the police for their inability to find the Whitechapel murderer appeared in
Punch
on 22 September 1888. (Wikimedia Commons)
The infamous ‘Dear Boss’ letter. (Wikimedia Commons)
The ‘From Hell’ letter, addressed to George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee. (Wikimedia Commons)
A drawing that appeared in
The Illustrated Police News
depicting the discovery of Catherine Eddowes’ body in Mitre Square. (Author’s collection)
The front page of
The Illustrated Police News
on 22 September 1888. (Author’s collection)
A map of the seven murder sites. (Wikimedia Commons)
A newspaper broadsheet of 1888, published immediately after the murder of Annie Chapman, referring to the Whitechapel murderer as ‘Leather Apron’. (Wikimedia Commons)
A police copy of the writing found in Goulston Street. (Wikimedia Commons)
First published in 2013
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Table of Contents
1 The Cleveland Street Scandal
2 Early life – Undercover Work and Marriage