627. Jack The Ripper: From Hell (Part 4)
December 18, 2025
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Books Referenced
Author: Hallie Rubenhold
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Referenced as a source for detailed accounts of the lives of Jack the Ripper victims, described as 'expertly sourced' with information drawn from written material
Author: Zola
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Mentioned as a comparison for Mary Jane Kelly's alleged backstory about being a courtesan, described as a novel about a courtesan in Paris that people would have been familiar with at the time
Author: Donald Rumbelow
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Explicitly cited as 'his book' when discussing theories about witness George Hutchinson's testimony and possible motivations
Author: Judith Walkowitz
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Described as 'a wonderful book on all this' that the host highly recommends, quoted regarding how witness descriptions matched stage villain stereotypes
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Described as 'the great literary sensation of the 1880s' and 'an incredibly famous novella' published in 1886, discussed in relation to how the public understood the Ripper's dual nature
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Referenced as the story in which Sherlock Holmes made his debut in 1887, discussed in context of amateur detection and the Ripper case
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Mentioned as the source of Holmes's famous maxim about eliminating the impossible, published in 1890 after the Ripper murders
Author: Michael Dibdin
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Referenced as one of many books featuring Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper, described as having a major twist connecting Holmes to the Ripper's crimes
Author: Richard von Krafft-Ebing
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Described as 'a vast compendium of sexual deviancy' published in 1886, which introduced terms like sadism and discussed lust murder, later including Jack the Ripper as 'case 17'