The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

by Hallie Rubenhold

All the while, the press speculated wildly about the identity of the culprit: he was a Whitechapel man; he was a wealthy “swell” from the West End; he was a sailor, a Jew, a butcher, a surgeon, a foreigner, a lunatic, a gang of extortionists.