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flanflanshazam's review
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This book was hot garbage and I finished it out of spite.
Half the sources the author cites are his own other books. Full of inaccuracies, lack of context, and one chapter is entirely comprised of horrible scans of crappy handwriting. I had to find a transcript on Reddit just to read it. And a photo of Mary Kelly was labelled as "a Ripper victim." Um, 1) she had a name, all these women had names, 2) it's one of the most famous photos in true crime, maybe label it correctly???? Whyyyyy were there over 20 pages of Gary Ridgeway's bumbling confession transcripts???? And then only a single page on big hitters like Jack the Ripper???
Don't waste your time with this book, there are much better ways to track this information down.
Half the sources the author cites are his own other books. Full of inaccuracies, lack of context, and one chapter is entirely comprised of horrible scans of crappy handwriting. I had to find a transcript on Reddit just to read it. And a photo of Mary Kelly was labelled as "a Ripper victim." Um, 1) she had a name, all these women had names, 2) it's one of the most famous photos in true crime, maybe label it correctly???? Whyyyyy were there over 20 pages of Gary Ridgeway's bumbling confession transcripts???? And then only a single page on big hitters like Jack the Ripper???
Don't waste your time with this book, there are much better ways to track this information down.
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