THE ANNOTATED FAMOUS CRIMES PAST AND PRESENT: JACK THE RIPPER

THE ANNOTATED FAMOUS CRIMES PAST AND PRESENT: JACK THE RIPPER
by Adam Wood

Covering celebrated cases of the day such as the Maybrick murder, poisoner William Palmer and the notorious burglar-turn-killer Charlie Peace, Famous Crimes was a true crime periodical which ran for three years, under the editorship of Harold Furniss.

Now highly collectable, the four-part Jack the Ripper series is one of the scarcest. Produced around 1904, just sixteen years after the Whitechapel murders, the text was written by 'a journliast who was specially engaged to investigate the crimes at the time they were committed.' It is impressive in its accuracy, and includes some interesting commentary made in the wake of the murders.

The illustrations, by Ferdinand Fissi, are some of the most recognisable and atmospheric ever produced on the subject.

This reproduction of the full Ripper series has been scanned in colour from original editions, and includes an Introduction and annotated notes throughout by Adam Wood.

• Softcover
• A4
• 44 pages
• Colour throughout

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Adam Wood is the author of Swanson: The Life and Times of a Victorian Detective, a detailed biography of the detective who was in charge of the investigation into the Jack the Ripper murders from Scotland Yard, and Murder on the Brighton Express, an examination of the notorious 1881 railway murder of Frederick Gold by Percy Lefroy Mapleton on the London to Brighton train. He is also co-author with Police historian Neil Bell of Sir Howard Vincent’s Police Code, 1889, and Edgar's Guides, a series of historic walking guidebooks with Blue Badge tour guide Richard Jones.

​Adam is Executive Editor of Ripperologist magazine, the leading publication dedicated to the serious study of the Whitechapel murders and their place in social history. From 2017 to 2021 he was Editor of the Journal of the Police History Society.