The Escape of Jack the Ripper, Jonathan Hainsworth
The Escape of Jack the Ripper, Jonathan Hainsworth
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The Escape of Jack the Ripper
The Truth About the Cover-up and His Flight from Justice

Author: Jonathan Hainsworth, Christine Ward-Agius

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/24/2021


Synopsis

A MYSTERY SOLVED

In 1888, five gruesome murders shocked the civilized public. A bloodthirsty killer was on the loose in the slums of London. The world was on the lookout for Jack the Ripper.

Scotland Yard never found their man—or so they said publicly. The police knew the killer's identity but concealed it to save the ruling class from embarrassment.

The Escape of Jack the Ripper reveals how British elites manipulated the public to protect one of their own. Through meticulous research, Jonathan Hainsworth and Christine Ward-Agius have uncovered the killer's identity.

In The Escape of Jack the Ripper, you'll learn: how a fit of madness transformed a reputable gentleman into a savage murderer; that the killer was caught literally red-handed but talked his way out of police custody; about the decades-long cover-up by the press and the police to protect a well-to-do family's reputation; about the harrowing social conditions in which the murders took place; and how the social privileges enjoyed by the ruling class led to a miscarriage of justice. A thoroughly researched and gripping tale, The Escape of Jack the Ripper solves the great Whitechapel murder mystery once and for all.

About Jonathan Hainsworth

Jonathan Hainsworth is an Australian high school history teacher. In 2007, he began teaching about Victorian society. He chose "Jack the Ripper" as an entry point and, to his surprise, found that a Metropolitan Police chief had solved the case, albeit posthumously-but that in sharing the solution with the public he had carefully concealed "the Ripper's" exact identity for reasons of propriety.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on December 27, 2021

Picked this up at my local library as it looked intriguing. I'm giving this three stars due to the level of research but this book was so frustrating, particularly when I discovered that one of the authors is a history teacher. The book puts forward a Jack the Ripper suspect as fact and doesn't addre......more

Goodreads review by Josh on April 17, 2024

An enjoyable read, but I hope you like flimsy arguments based on repetitive, unsubstantiated assertions.......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on December 31, 2022

Purchased for research purposes, its research values dwindled exponentially halfway through when the authors moved from documented information to pure speculation. Everybody has a theory regarding who Jack the Ripper was. The authors put their candidate forward early and spend much of the book provin......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on January 01, 2022

This book is fantastically researched. The fact that the authors found all this information is ridiculously impressive. For that alone it is worthy of 4 stars. However the writing at points is very choppy and they often go on unrelated tangents that made me question where I was in the book. With all......more

Goodreads review by Amber on February 28, 2023

I was so excited I love books on Jack the Ripper but this was very disappointing I felt like he was reaching for some things that didn’t add up with an excuse for why they didn’t and just too many holes for me personally......more