The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London

by R. Michael Gordon

The Thames Torso Murders have been overshadowed by Jack the Ripper and his crimes, but were just as brutal and gruesome. They began in 1887 in London's East End, just north of the Thames River in Rainham, England. The killer took one victim that year, another in 1888, and two more in 1889. He resumed his crimes in 1902, taking his last victim south of the Thames and leaving her body in a pile of dismembered parts as he had done with most of his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786413484
• ISBN13: 9780786413485
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher