Autorentext

Jan Bondeson is a respected true crime writer, and author of 'The London Monster', 'Murder Houses of London', 'Rivals of the Ripper' and other books. He lives in Dunbar, Scotland.

Klappentext

Uncover London's most infamous and brutal 19th-century murder. In 1838, Eliza Grimwood, a high-class prostitute, is found viciously murdered in her Waterloo Road home. Her throat is cut, and her abdomen is ripped. The client is nowhere to be seen. Jan Bondeson dissects the convoluted investigation, revealing suspects from an alcoholic bricklayer to a royal duke. He links this crime to other Victorian slayings, proposing the Ripper of Waterloo Road was a serial killer with four victims. Using the preserved diary of the lead police officer, Bondeson crafts a gripping true crime account that inspired Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. For readers of true crime history and unsolved mysteries, this is a chilling journey into London's dark past.

Zusammenfassung
WHEN JACK THE RIPPER first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his crimes were as ghastly as those committed by Eliza Grimwood's murderer fifty years earlier.