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The book is so close to the mark that police minister Tony McNulty
denounced it in the House of Commons as ‘more of a fiction than Dickens’
(and then had to admit he was wrong about this on the BBC’s Panorama).
Publisher: Monday Books;

Jack The Ripper The Final Solution – Stephen Knight

"Jack the Ripper: the Final Solution" by Stephen Knight is
one of the most unusual, but believable, theories about
the infamous Whitechapel murders. Knight, a British
journalist, not only details the murders themselves, but also
explores the politics of the era. Knight also explores some
of the more intriguing questions about the murders:
namely, how the killer(s) could commit the murders and
perform the ghastly mutilations and disappear back into
the London fog without getting caught.

This author was blessed with information from a close relative of one of the
team that did the killings. The source was an artist who painted clues into his
paintings. He died a tortured soul. The author also did a lot of research of
original source materials, including police records of the time. Very
convincing.

The Ripper crimes will never be solved for one reason: the "Ripperologists"!
They claim to be the people who are trying to solve the crime, when in fact
they are the very people who will prevent the crimes from ever being solved,
because they will attack and ridicule any theory that they themselves didn't
come up with. The crime has almost surely already been solved long ago,
only the ripperologist has scoffed at the answer. And now the ripperologist
smugly sits on his throne, safe in the knowledge that he will always appear
smarter than the person who is smarter than he (or she) is. And in this
instance, regarding 'Jack The Ripper', the person who is smarter than they are
was Stephen Knight. Publisher: HarperCollins; New Ed edition (4 Oct. 2010)

The Gangs Of Birmingham - Philip Gooderson

"As brutal and brazen as the Mob, they made the streets of Birmingham run with blood" - Daily Mail

They were young, violent and fearless. They fought with
knives, belt buckles and cut-throat razors, and were noted
for their strange, outlandish fashions and for their long
fringes and peaked caps. They would become
immortalised as the Peaky Blinders. In the late 19th century
the industrial city of Birmingham, renowned as the
'workshop of the world', erupted in a series of gang wars.
Mobs of youths armed with makeshift weapons fought
pitched battles for territorial supremacy. Page18