Sunday, September 26, 2010

September Staff Picks


Kreig's Pick
The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved...In San Francisco
Written by Robert Graysmith
HV 6533 .C2 G73 1999
The year is 1888. It is dangerous to walk the lonely and dark streets of the white chapel district of London. This is the scene set for the serial killer known only as "Jack the Ripper." During the year of eighteen eighty Jack the Ripper killed five prostitutes. Then the killings suddenly stopped. No one knows why. Did Jack die or was he arrested on a different count and the murders were not tied to him. Over the hundred years since the killings many theories have suggested. Robert Graysmith delves into a theory of Jack the Ripper that places the blame of two murders in a San Francisco church on the new pastor a man named Pastor Jack Gibson. Graysmith delves deeply into the case and explains the two murders in depth creating a very good claim for his theory. The book contains many twists in itself that leave the reader wondering whether or not Pastor Jack Gibson is in fact Jack the Ripper.

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