Compiled in encyclopedic format by three of the world' leading experts on the subject, this book provides completely up-to-date, fresh and unbiased accounts of the many theories as to his identity. It also describes all the main suspects (including the hitherto unidentified police suspect, Michael Ostrog), giving details of the policemen, politicians and innocent by-standers caught up in the case. 

It provides a wealth of topographical detail and social background which put the crimes into their proper historical context - thereby helping to explain why they created such a sensation at the time and why they continue to exert such a fascination over a century later. Illustrated.

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