Paul Begg and John Bennett: Jack the Ripper: The Forgotten Victims (Yale University Press, 310 pp.)

Of making of books about Jack the Ripper, there is apparently no end. While the murders were a press sensation in 1888, ‘Ripperology’ as a subject did not take off until the 1960s, when increasingly obscure or exalted subjects were put forward as suspects, from poor Polish lunatics and Russian conmen, through the Duke of Clarence to the painter Walter Sickert and even the author of Alice in Wond...