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Last Victim, The (Graham / Emmas)
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Last Victim, The (Graham / Emmas)
Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Friday, 23 July 1999 - 05:34 am |        | The Last Victim: The extraordinary life of Florence Maybrick, the wife of Jack the Ripper
By Anne E. Graham and Carol Emmas
Foreword by Keith Skinner
236 Pages (Hardcover), 1999}
Courtesy of "British Books at American Prices"...
ABOUT THE BOOK:
August 1889. Twenty-seven-year-old Florence Maybrick is sentenced to death for poisoning her husband, Liverpool cotton broker James Maybrick, in one of the most famous — and unsatisfactory — trials in British legal history. But what was the truth behind Maybrick's death? And how was he connected to a spate of terrible murders in London's East End? The Last Victim is the biography of the remarkable woman now widely believed to have been the wife of Jack the Ripper. Since the discovery of the 'Ripper diary' in 1992 and the subsequent emergence of evidence that proves it is genuine, James Maybrick has become the leading suspect in the Whitechapel murders. If this is so, Florence Maybrick, famous in her own lifetime as a notorious murderess, must now be reassessed in the light of this revelation.
* Did Florence really poison her husband, or was she set up?
* Who knew about Maybrick's connection to the Ripper murders, and to what lengths would they go to keep it quiet?
* Why was vital evidence suppressed from the trial?
* Was Florence in fact as much of a victim as the women murdered by Jack the Ripper?
Florence's turbulent life — her marriage to the most infamous serial killer of all time, her sensational trial and imprisonment — is the stuff of high drama. But Florence herself has remained an enigma — until now. Revealing startling new evidence that puts a fresh dramatic twist on Maybrick's death, The Last Victim is a fascinating historical re-evaluation of one of the most extraordinary true crime puzzles of all time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Anne E. Graham came into the possession of the infamous 'Ripper Diary' — the journal identified as having been written by James Maybrick and signed Jack the Ripper — when it was given to her by her father. He later claimed that it had been in the family because his own father was the illegitimate son of Florence Maybrick, meaning that Florence was Anne's great-grandmother.
When the diary became public in 1992, the resulting controversy pushed Anne reluctantly into the spotlight, and initially left her wanting nothing more to do with the subject. However, an interest in her own family connection and a desire to get to the bottom of the diary's origins subsequently led to her work with Paul Feldman's research team on his book Jack the Ripper: The Final Chapter. She is at present reading for a degree in Liverpool where she lives with her daughter.
Carol Emmas also helped to research Paul Feldman's books and shares a particular interest in Florence's life which resulted in her collaboration with Anne E. Graham on this book. Also at Liverpool's John Moores University, studying history, Carol lives in the north-west of England with her partner and daughter.
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