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    Jack the Ripper's Secret Confession: The Hidden Testimony of Britain's First Serial Killer
    Jack the Ripper's Secret Confession: The Hidden Testimony of Britain's First Serial Killer
    Jack the Ripper's Secret Confession: The Hidden Testimony of Britain's First Serial Killer
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    Jack the Ripper's Secret Confession: The Hidden Testimony of Britain's First Serial Killer

    By David Monaghan and Nigel Cawthorne

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    With several million copies sold in the last fifty years, My Secret Life, first published by Grove Press in the 1960s, is one of the most famous pornographic works in literary history. What readers of this long-banned and troubling book of violent sexual fantasies failed to realize is that it is also the confession of history’s most fiendish killer.

    Written during the era of Jack the Ripper, it’s narrated by Walter,” the pseudonym of textile millionaire Henry Spencer Ashbee. Walter was a voyeur and rapist obsessed with prostitutes, and his writing revealed his darkest sexual secrets. He died in 1901, long before his book would be widely read. Only now have researchers finally come to the conclusion that Walter” and Jack the Ripper were, in fact, one and the same.

    Jack the Ripper’s Secret Confession puts all the pieces together, and its new theory will amaze and titillate scholars who for generations have pondered the true identity of history’s most brutal murderer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateJan 1, 2010
    ISBN9781620876558
    Jack the Ripper's Secret Confession: The Hidden Testimony of Britain's First Serial Killer
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    David Monaghan

    David has aspirations and visions of flying like Superman and driving a hot car like the Batmobile. He is a father, husband and all around good guy to those around him. He is an avid collector of dragons and super hero memorabilia. He resides in Selah, Washington with his fiancé, after living in Phoenix, Arizona for several years. He was glad to leave there and come back to his home in Washington State. His lifelong dream is to visit Ireland and England, and to revisit Paris, France, where he visited while serving in the US Navy.

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