The Diary of Jack the Ripper - The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick

Shirley Harrison

• Publisher: John Blake
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782191551
• Year: 2010

The pages of The Diary of Jack the Ripper reveal the unimaginable - that over a century ago, the legendary serial killer at work in London's Whitechapel kept a record of his bestial mutilations of women. The writer of the horrific journal is James Maybrick, a depraved drug-taking, womanising, 49-year-old Liverpool cotton merchant with a history of domestic violence. In this analysis of his diary, investigative author Shirley Harrison explains all about the origins of the text, the rigorous scientific analysis it has endured and reveals startling new information about Maybrick's shadowy background. All this combines with a chilling confession scratched into a watch, 'I am Jack. J Maybrick,' provide powerful justification that Maybrick was Jack the Ripper. The diary itself is reproduced in full, so that you too can judge whether these are the deeply distributing words of Jack the Ripper himself, reaching out from across the abyss of more than a century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Maps
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• 1: PERHAPS IN MY TORMENTED MIND I WISH FOR SOMEONE TO READ THIS AND UNDERSTAND
• 2: MY HANDS ARE COLD, MY HEART I DO BELIEVE IS COLDER STILL.
• 3: A DARK SHADOW LAYS OVER THE HOUSE, IT IS EVIL.
• 4: THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I FEEL AN OVERWHELMING COMPULSION TO PLACE MY THOUGHTS TO PAPER.
• 5: TOMORROW I WILL PURCHASE THE FINEST KNIFE MONEY CAN BUY, NOTHING SHALL BE TOO GOOD FOR MY WHORES.
• 6: I LOOK FORWARD TO TOMORROW NIGHT’S WORK, IT WILL DO ME GOOD, A GREAT DEAL OF GOOD.
• 7: TO MY ASTONISHMENT, I CANNOT BELIEVE I HAVE NOT BEEN CAUGHT
• 8: BEFORE I AM FINISHED ALL ENGLAND WILL KNOW THE NAME I HAVE GIVEN MYSELF.
• 9: GOD PLACED ME HERE TO KILL ALL WHORES.
• 10: WHEN I HAVE FINISHED MY FIENDISH DEEDS, THE DEVIL HIMSELF WILL PRAISE ME.
• 11: I DO NOT KNOW IF SHE HAS THE STRENGTH TO KILL ME.
• 12: I PLACE THIS NOW IN A PLACE WHERE IT SHALL BE FOUND.
• 13: THE WHORE WILL SUFFER UNLIKE SHE HAS EVER SUFFERED.
• 14: I AM JACK A WATCH IS DISCOVERED
• 15: THEY WILL SUFFER JUST AS I. I WILL SEE TO THAT.
• 16: MY CAMPAIGN IS FAR FROM OVER YET…
• 17: THE PAIN IS UNBEARABLE
• 18: I AM TIRED OF KEEPING UP THE PRETENCE
• 19: THE MAN I HAVE BECOME WAS NOT THE MAN I WAS BORN
• 20: AM I NOT INDEED A CLEVER FELLOW?
• 21: SIR JIM WILL GIVE NOTHING AWAY, NOTHING
• 22: I PRAY WHOEVER SHOULD READ THIS WILL FIND IT IN THEIR HEART TO FORGIVE ME.
• A FACSIMILE OF THE DIARY OF JACK THE RIPPER
• A TRANSCRIPT OF THE DIARY OF JACK THE RIPPER
• INDEX
• Copyright