Showing Jack the Ripper: The Simple Truth by Bruce Paley

Recently declared by the editor of The Journal of the Whitechapel Society to be the best Jack the Ripper book ever written, former Private Investigator Bruce Paley spent 15 years painstakingly researching his book. He was the first to declare Joseph Barnett to be the Ripper, and the first to apply modern detection methods to the case. The book has also been widely praised for its "extraordinarily vivid picture of late 19th century London" (Daily Mail). As The Journal of the Whitechapel Society explained: "Paley really does understand the East End A.D. 1888, his words map out its DNA, his sentences tap out the arithmetic of existence. For one to understand the Whitechapel murders, one must understand the times. Nowhere can one do this better than in the chapters Paley devotes to this historical sociology...This is history with a poetical syncopation." As Colin WIlson said in his foreword to the book: "If I had to recommend a single book on Jack the Ripper to someone who knew nothing about the subject, I would unhesitatingly choose this one." To which the Journal of the Whitechapel Society adds: "The list starts with 'Bruce' and ends with 'Paley'." Or, as Val Hennessy said in the Daily Mail: "Bruce Paley's excellent book convinces me, for one, that The Ripper has at last been nailed."