A Case of Mother’s Ruin by Martin Roberts

Prelude to the Whitechapel murders

The gruesome events of Autumn 1888, commonly referred to as the Whitechapel Murders, have defied definitive explanation ever since. This study breaks with convention, focussing on the matter of motive and distilling the culprit’s likely identity from examination of an earlier murderous crime in which they were thought to have been involved.