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Unmasking Jack the Ripper
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Longmans, 1914
Days of My Years
Macnaghten, Sir Melville Leslie
London: Longmans & Green. 1914.
300pp. [Police and Forensic Science]
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Macnaghten devotes a subchapter "Laying the Ghost of Jack the Ripper" to the Whitechapel Murders. Discusses each murder in turn and then concludes that the killer most likely committed suicide soon after the Kelly murder. Rare.

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Related pages:
  Melville Macnaghten
       Dissertations: A Mystery Play : Police Opinions on Jack the Ripper 
       Dissertations: Emily and the Bibliophile: A Possible Source for Macnaght... 
       Dissertations: Problems with the Macnaghten Memoranda 
       Message Boards: Melville Leslie Macnaghten 
       Official Documents: The Macnaghten Memoranda 
       Police Officials: Melville Leslie Macnaghten 
       Press Reports: Coshocton Tribune - 3 June 1913 
       Press Reports: Frederick Post - 2 June 1913 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 13 May 1921 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 16 May 1913 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 17 May 1921 
       Press Reports: Washington Post - 4 June 1913 
       Ripper Media: Days of My Years: Chapter 4 
       Ripper Media: Jack l'Eventreur Demasque