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    Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman

    By John Morris

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    The Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 continue to exert a macabre hold on our imagination. Among the first serial murders, their brutality and bizarreness, and the seeming impossibility of detection have a terrible fascination. What kind of person could have performed such horrific deeds, and could have overstepped the boundary of what marks humankind? How could they not have been caught by the unprecedented police effort? The murders were reported on around the world and the murderer was the first to be given a macabre nickname. He has been the subject of hundreds of books and several films but his identity remains a mystery. Suspects have included the eminent Victorian doctor Sir William Gull, royal gynecologist Sir John Williams and the painter Walter Sickert. Conspiracy theories abound, involving Masonic, Jewish and other connections. This is the story of the extensive research of John Morris and his late father. Starting with the many unresolved questions about the murders they shockingly concluded that they could be answered if Jack was in reality a woman, not a man. But who could she be? After many twists and turns they reach an all too plausible conclusion…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeren
    Release dateMar 26, 2012
    ISBN9781854115676
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    Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman
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    John Morris

    John Morris has stories to tell. His novels are absorbing fiction, which are intense and emotional at times, and funny at others. “I study the Human Species,” he relates. “I share this by writing a rainbow of human emotions. One minute the evocative words may make one cry, and the next, humour dispels the emotional miasma. Good novels, like real life, are a question of balance, and drawing the reader in.”Morris draws on his eclectic life experiences in his writing. He brings to the reader a range of heartfelt emotions, highs and lows of human life, as mirrored by humanity in general.“I am sharing my written words with readers, and feedback has been fantastic. I’m hungry to write more, and share with others life’s experiences. My books have several levels, but I love it best, when I use words to hide a clue written in plain sight. That is Cristie-esque.”Morris has never accepted anything simply because it is the norm. He admits, “I have enjoyed so many different careers, and seen so much of the world in the process, they seem like separate lifetimes. I always wanted to be a folk/rock star, because I’m driven to tell stories of people’s lives and loves, initially by writing lyrics. Whilst being very good at playing a 12-string acoustic guitar, I could not sing to save my life. Over time, I discovered I could write, poems and short stories at first, and then novels.”Born in England to a local father and an Irish mother, Morris has lived in China since 2004. He has held numerous positions, from the ten years he spent as a police officer specializing in serious fraud, to entrepreneur and world trader, to writer. Early on, he qualified as a Yachtmaster for sailing vessels.Aged forty-eight, he lost everything: his girlfriend, his home, his car, and because of that, his job. “It was a turning point. How does your mind work?” He asks. “I felt the bottom had dropped out of my life as I knew it, so after moping for a few months, I created a new life. I went to University to study Mobile Computing BSc. (Hons), and got my placement year in Foshan, China. I loved the culture, the people so much I never went back. Life is what you make it.”After two failed marriages, he is now happily married to Siu Ying, and living in the heartland of Cantonese China. Morris is father to their young daughter, Rhiannon. Morris is not a polyglot, but he speaks Cantonese to a conversational level. Although he and his wife do not share a common language, they communicate exceptionally well. “We’ve never had an argument,” he relates. “How could we, when neither of us speaks enough of the other’s tongue.”Morris writes about his cross-cultural experiences on his self-coded website, china-expats.com. He also designs and hosts web sites for other people and companies.Related websites:Author website:http://www.john-morris-author.comImprint website:http://www.charlotte-greene.co.ukStar Gazer website:http://www.star-gazer.co.ukA Letter from China:http://www.china-expats.com

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    • 4/5
      I actually found this quite an interesting read. John Morris presents an interesting argument about who he thinks Jack the Ripper is and does show some interesting reasons whyshe might be the killer.He takes one of the occasional suspects, Sir John Williams and points out that while he's not a good suspect, his wife, Mary Elizabeth Ann Williams is. That there is no reason to suspect a woman wouldn't kill and that in fact there have been a few women who have cut other women up, and that Lizzie Williams may have been distressed by her and her husband's inability to have children.It's an interesting read, the details are not for the squeamish.
    • 5/5
      Have just finished reading Jack the Ripper; the Hand of a Woman by Jon Morris. Once I started reading it I literally couldn't put it down. Although skeptical at the outset - that the Whitechapel murderer of 1888 could have been the work of a woman - Morris and his father trawl through a whole series of clues, ignored by virtually all other authors of this popular genre, in reaching their incredible, but I have to say very plausible conclusion. Not for the feint hearts, the account of their joint investigation covers all five murders in medically graphic detail - but in a book about the Ripper murders, I suppose this is unavoidable. An extremely good work of non-fiction but written in the style of a thriller. I thoroughly recommend it as a very good read - and oh, by the way; i'm now convinced; Jack the Ripper was definately a woman.

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