This author is a bit obsessed with his "Severin Klosowski is Jack the Ripper" theory. In this book, as in all his others, he treats his theory as fact, cites his own previous books as authorities without mentioning their authorship, and tries to pin a number of very different murders in America on Klosowski/Jack. Only one was a Ripper-style murder, a prostitute who was strangled, her throat cut, her abdomen mutilated. One woman was shot. One elderly woman was stabbed to death when she surprised a burglar at her home. Gordon also includes several British murders which are by no means certain Ripper crimes -- in fact, some of them were most definitely NOT.

In addition, the book is badly written and there is gross overuse of exclamation points.

I normally want to read every Jack the Ripper book I can get my hands on, and I've read one of Gordon's previous books. But I think it's a waste of time to read any more of his work. There are many better treatments of the subject. ( )