A review by mezzosherri
Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook by Donald Rumbelow

4.0

A fair-minded, adequately-written summary of the Whitechapel murders, written by a former policeman who brings that expertise to an analysis of the evidence and the main suspects. The very workmanlike nature of the prose, and the entirely-unnecessary final chapter that tells about numerous 20th-century killers-of-women (for no discernable reason and in excessive detail) almost made me mark this down to 3 stars. Ultimately, though, Rumblelow's willingness to look at the evidence dispassionately--rather than twisting or discarding things to suit some particular pet theory--kept the book in the 4-star range for me, on account of how unexpectedly rare that sort of objective approach is taken in Ripperology.