The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

by Hallie Rubenhold

Louise Brealey (Narrator)

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'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerful and shaming' GUARDIAN

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.

What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888.

Their murderer was never identified, but the name...

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  • ISBN13 9781489488374
  • Publish Date 28 February 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country AU
  • Publisher Bolinda Publishing
  • Imprint Bolinda Audio Books
  • Edition Simultaneous Release
  • Format Audiobook (MP3)
  • Duration 10 hours and 21 minutes
  • Language English