Real lives, real women and much more than murder victims

An illustrated Police News reports details of the Jack the Ripper murders

History: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper; By Hallie Rubenhold; Doubleday, €21

Over the course of just a few months in the autumn of 1888, five women were brutally murdered in Whitechapel in the east end of London. After a letter was sent to a news agency claiming to be from the murderer and signed “Jack the Ripper”, the name stuck, and although the killer was ...