The Private Life of Jack the Ripper

In this remarkably shrewd and witty novel, Victorian London is brought to life with compelling authority. Richard Gordon wonderfully conveys the boisterous, often lusty panorama of life for the very poor—hard, menial work; violence; prostitution; disease. The Private Life of Jack the Ripper is a masterly evocation of the practice of medicine in 1888, the year of Jack the Ripper. It is also a dark and disturbing medical mystery. Why were his victims so silent? And why was there so little blood?