627. Jack The Ripper: From Hell (Part 4)

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Referenced for its detailed, expertly sourced accounts of the lives of the Ripper's victims, with the hosts noting that Rubenhold says of Mary Jane Kelly that 'not a single statement made by her about her life prior to her arrival in London has ever been verified.'

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Tom Holland quotes Walkowitz's observation that Hutchinson's description of the suspect 'carefully replicated the costume and stance of the classic stage villain,' recommending it highly.

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Cited for Rumbelow's theory that George Hutchinson's detailed description of the suspect may have been an act of spiteful resentment or jealousy rather than a genuine sighting.

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Discussed extensively as the great literary sensation of the 1880s that shaped how people understood the Ripper murders, with W.T. Stead directly comparing the Ripper to Mr. Hyde in his editorial.

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Mentioned as a brilliant book in which Sherlock Holmes is more closely associated with the Ripper's crimes, with a massive twist the hosts hint at but don't reveal.

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Referenced as the 1887 debut of Sherlock Holmes, with the hosts quoting its famous line about 'a scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life.'

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Mentioned as the source of Holmes's famous maxim about eliminating the impossible, published in 1890, the year after Mary Jane Kelly's murder.

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Discussed as the 1886 compendium of sexual deviancy that introduced terms like sadism and masochism to the English language, and in which Krafft-Ebing eventually included Jack the Ripper as 'case 17' under lust murder.

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Briefly referenced as a comparison for Mary Jane Kelly's stories about her life as a high-class courtesan, noting it was a novel about a Parisian courtesan that people at the time would have been familiar with.