They All Love Jack
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For over a hundred years, ‘the mystery of Jack the Ripper’ has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of obsessive theorists, and endless volumes purporting finally to reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorised Victorian England.
But what if there was never really any ‘mystery’ at all? What if the Ripper was always hiding in plain sight, deliberately leaving a trail of clues to his identity for anyone who cared to look, while cynically mocking those who were supposedly attempting to bring him to justice?
In *They All Love Jack*, the award-winning film director and screenwriter Bruce Robinson exposes the cover-up that enabled one of history's most notorious serial killers to remain at large. More than twelve years in the writing, this is much more than a radical reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper legend, and an enthralling hunt for the killer.
Polemic, forensic investigation, panoramic portrait of an age, underpinned by deep scholarship and delivered in Robinson's inimitably vivid and scabrous prose, *They All Love Jack* is an absolutely riveting and unique book, demolishing the theories of generations of self-appointed experts — the so-called ‘Ripperologists’ — to make clear, at last, who *really* did it; and more importantly, how he managed to get away with it for so long.
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Almost DNF but I powered through the audiobook at 2.5x by the end. Well researched and the audiobook was very well read but it was just way too long and repetitive for me. The same stories, theories, and explanations could have been presented in half the time. The tone of the writing was often very harsh which sometimes made it unpleasant to listen to, plus there were certain derogatory names and phrases that were repeated throughout the book which were not necessary.
