Question of the week: With Halloween on the horizon, is there a particular episode from London's history that gives you the shivers? "Another obvious entry in the annals of horrible history has to be Jack the Ripper, who set off a wave of prurient panic in the Victorian newspapers in 1888, while getting away with the bloody murder of at least five, and maybe as many as eleven, prostitutes in London's East End before melting back into the shadows. Contemporary conspiracy theories ranged from unhinged surgeons to the Prince of Wales' son, Prince Albert Victor!
There are hundreds of books and websites exploring the murders and the world around them, not to mention inspiring novels, movies, and a brace of competing walking tours. (Personally, I like London Walk's version.)"
- Miss Alice
Want to read more? Related books in the LUP Library include:
East end chronicles, by Ed Glinert, London's underworld : Three centuries of vice and crime, by Fergus Linnane, and Victorian underworld, by Donald Thomas.
* Photo by I'veBeenThere!, used under Creative Commons, with thanks.
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