Customer Reviews
Probably the worst book ever written on the subject - By: Antonio Sironi, 16 Jul 2007 
If you are looking for a book about Jack the Ripper this is not the book for you! I have more than 55 Ripper books & fortunately for me, I did not buy it, but I read a frined of mine's copy. The book is mere absurd speculations & mislending reports.
Avoid this one!
Simply awful - By: stretchingthemind, 14 May 2007 Agaisnt all the bad reviews I purchased this book & boy was it bad. Not one part of the theory makes sense & anything that does make sense is lifted from the casebook.org. I am not into personal attacks agaisnt the author, but the content was terrible. I read itin one day trying to find something of use but with no luck. This is the only JTR bookin my collection I put up on marketplace it was that bad.
This book is an embarrassment... - By: Thomas Schachner, 21 Oct 2006 This book is an embarrassment...
...an embarrassment to the victims of Jack the Ripper, an embarrassment to Ripperology itself, but above all, an embarrassment to its author. It's hard to believe that such a book is for sale & people are forced to pay money for it!
Self-publishing a book is not a bad thing & gives lots of opportunities to new authors, but personally I would recommend a better Quality-Management instead of publishing everything that lands on a desk & promises money. But on the other hand...the "book" by Karen Trenouth would never have been published if this nonsense script would have beenin the hands of a "real" publisher.
The author herself "studied" the case for over a year (I repeat, ONE YEAR) & the end result is just a word-by-word-copy from the acknowledged www.casebook.org-website & some deer-field-dressing-dementia, combined with outdated royal-conspiracy-bollocks.
Why spend your money when almost everything writtenin that book can be accessed for free & is compiled by people that did their homework & studied the case longer & light-years more successful than Mrs. Trenouth?
Dear Boss, Don't buy this if you want to know who I am. Ha ha. - By: Deborah K. Dobbins, 07 Aug 2006 This is quite possibly the worst Jack the Ripper book ever. I wasn't even going to read it but did give it a try. There are dozens of historical inaccuracies & the plot is absolutely ridiculous, not to mention the gross disregard for copyright laws. The author seems to be seeing statuesin piles of entrails & calling it a "discovery". There are no statuesin the entrails, no groundbreaking discoveries, & no new evidence presented within. Don't waste your money on this convoluted garbage like I did.
A book best forgotten! - By: Bob Hinton, 01 Aug 2006 The best thing about this book is that it is hilarious; the worst is that I don't think it was meant to be!
A work of fiction, the author uses a well-tested device of mixing actual events with imaginary ones. Unfortunately whereas masters of this genre such as Bernard Cornwell & George McDonald Fraser manage to use this ploy successfully Ms Trenouth fails miserably.
The paper-thin plot revolves around a mysterious cabal who meetin secret, smoke filled rooms plotting the murder of a prostitute named Mary. The method chosen is to just start killing prostitutes & hope they get lucky! Since records show that the prostitute population of the East End at this time (1888) was about 80,000, you have to admire their determination if not their intelligence!
Characters are just picked up & dumpedin front of the readers with no other justification for being there other than they happen to be available. In a vain attempt to inject some interest into this abysmal nonsense, Ms Trenouth enlists the help of the usual suspects. Knights Templar, Freemasons & Devil worshippers are all thrown into the mix, Dan Brown you have a lot to answer for. Even Queen Victoria is given a walk on part which seems to consist solely of muttering `We are not amused' & handing out free pardons to anyone who requires one.
Allin all a badly written, poorly presented mishmash of facts (which seem to have been cut & pasted from the internet), & weak & unconvincing invention.
The only possible reason for having this book is if you have a wobbly table that needs propping up!
