Bücher von Rebecca Frost

Through a comparison of the tellings and retellings of two famous cases more than a century apart - the Jack the Ripper killings in 1888, and the murder trials of Steven Avery as documented in Making a Murderer - this book examines the complicated dynamics of criminal celebrity.

Decades before the coining of the term ""serial killer,"" H.H. Holmes murdered dozens of people in his now-infamous Chicago ""Murder Castle"". This book uses Holmes' writings and confessions to inspect how the Arch Fiend represented himself.

Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Liz Stride, Kate Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly might be contenders for the most written about women in all of history, and yet their names mean little unless connected with that of their killer: Jack the Ripper. This book offers a survey of what has been written about the canonical five victims of Jack the Ripper.