I have always been intrigued by the story of Jack the Ripper as many have. I had never heard of Thomas Cutbush so found this to be very interesting. I particularly liked the references used by the author. It certainly makes the reader think. I enjoyed it .

The Man Who Would Be Jack: The Hunt for the Real Ripper
Apr 4, 2017
by David Bullock


I voluntarily received a copy of this book for review purposes
Another book for Ripperologists, presenting yet another suspect. However, rather than ripping up priceless paintings like a certain author, Bullock writes like a journalist/scholar with extensive background and end-notes while leaving out the gore and blood that most Ripperologists seem to dwell on.
Handled more like a dissertation or a lengthy news report, everything is laid out by time, place, data and witness. This take more effectively builds a case than many other Ripper theories that involve arcane rituals, missing (burned) doctor notes or Goddess save us, Johnny Depp movies.
Some of the book reads like a novel but this does not take away from the well-built case.
The beauty of the book is not only the well laid, perhaps best laid case, for the serial killer, but the story of the journalists who chased the story with the drive of Woodward and Bernstein.
There is also a dark, Dickensian beauty in the description of the horror of these destitute women's lives and the men who used and abused them well before Saucy Jack got to them.
Truly unfortunate is the Victorian journalist's habit of using initials so that the reader, as well as the writers, face a certain frustration in tracking back sources properly.
Great book, excellent research, a credible suspect that we haven't heard much about and perfect end-notes and incredible documentation.
I'm a very amateur Ripper kind of girl, but this was very well done. The only problem is that you accidentally breathe on a notation you zip to the end and it takes forever to find where you were.
This killer book is Book Nerd approved.
4 out of 5 slashes!
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This book is very useful to better understand Thomas Cutbush as suspect Jack the Ripper. Many documents and newspapers are used as references and sources by the author. A volume that surely every Ripperologist should have on his shelf.

Thank you for this book. I learn a lot of things. It was very interesting. Congratulations.

As I fell asleep too many times during this book, I only finished half of it before I threw in the towel for it. I really wanted to like the book, because the mystery of Jack the ripper is one that I find quite interesting. Unfortunately I found the book a little bit boring. I do not know what to say more than that because I could never connect with the book long enough to have an other opinion about it.

The book is filled with information, and as there are footnotes everywhere I belive them to be facts (without checking for my selv). But because of all the information, my brain never got a break from the text and I at times felt I was reading a boring school book. As this is not something I would like from a book I read for fun, I choose to close it. It might become more interesting as the story got to progress some more, but it was too slow for me to figure out if that was the case.

Will review on goodreads, I read this book in one sitting and although,I have read quite a few books on Jack the Ripper was intrigued to learn about Tomas cutbush,and was totally amazed on how the evidence piled up.
Would highly recommended this book to everyone.

Princess Fuzzypants here:
More than a century and a quarter after the events in Whitechapel, Jack the Ripper still fascinates. I confess. I am enthralled with the stories and, like so many, have swayed to and fro on the identity of the real killer. So many books and movies have tried to answer the big question: who was he?
This is an excellent, well written, highly researched and compelling piece of journalism. Bullard has taken an expose from 1894 and examined it from all sides to come to the conclusion that Thomas Cutbush was Jack. He has built a case that is so tight, there is hardly any room for doubts. In fact, it was so convincing that it lead me to look up the recent story on DNA definitively identifying Jack. It has quite frankly left me in a quandary.
DNA evidence from a shawl from one of the victims has shown that Kominski, another of the suspects, was Jack. DNA evidence is pretty conclusive.. Yet this book is so well documented and the case so well established that I wonder if a mistake might have been possible. It is that good.
Of course, do not take my word for it. Judge for yourself. See if you too wonder....
I give it five purrs and two paws up.