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Jack the Ripper

and Abraham

Lincoln

One man links the two greatest

crimes of the 19th century

Tony McMahon

KEY SELLING POINTS

This book reveals how a member of the gang that assassinated President Abraham Lincoln went on to be a
leading suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings of 1888
It tells the gripping story of a celebrity American doctor in America’s Gilded Age who had a dark, murderous
secret – he was linked to the two greatest crimes of the 19th century

An astonishing connection between two of the 19th century’s greatest crimes.

A fraudulent doctor, Francis Tumblety, is implicated in both the 1865 assassination of President Abraham
Lincoln and the 1888 Jack the Ripper killings. It seems incredible that Jack the Ripper could have been
involved in killing President Lincoln, but the evidence is revealed in this book.

We delve into a murky underworld in America’s Gilded Age and the poverty ridden slums of London’s
Whitechapel district following the murderous trail left by Tumblety. A flamboyant huckster, well known in the
newspaper gossip columns, whose celebrity masked his homicidal tendencies.

Arrested over the Lincoln assassination then released while others were hanged on the scaffold. Put behind
bars briefly by Scotland over the Jack the Ripper killings but then makes a daring escape. The proof is
overwhelming that Tumblety was one of the most dangerous criminals of the 19th century.

Tony McMahon is a published author, former BBC news producer, and TV historian appearing in
documentaries on History, Discovery, ITV, Channel 5, and other networks covering a vast range of topics
including Jack the Ripper. He was born in East London and with many of his family having worked in law
enforcement this has given him a lifelong interest in true crime.

Publication Date: 28th May 2024 £14.99 ISBN: 9781805143642
Thema subject category: DNXC – True crime
paperback 216 x 138 mm 344 pp Portrait Author location: London

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