The Yorkshire Ripper Book
The use of fiction allowed him to speculate but his elliptical style and shifting point of view made it difficult to sort out what happened.
The yorkshire ripper book. Non fiction true crime this is a decent book about the yorkshire ripper and his crimes. 2015 by chris clark tim tate author 46 out of 5 stars 218 ratings see all formats and editions. Its not overly detailed and the fact that it was written in the early 80s means the story stops there. An exhaustive account of the hunt for the yorkshire ripper from 1975 to 1981 detailing the crimesthe police mistakes and the eventual almost lucky capture of the killerclearly an unsavoury subject but very useful to see how the police tackled it and what mistakes were madethe main problems were the poor communications between detectives before the introduction of computers and the losing of card filesthe difficulties of policing before dna enabled them to pursue other avenuesthe false.
The novels are reminiscent in style to those of james ellroy who did a hallucinatory trilogy set in la and the cold war. Yorkshire ripper survivor writes book on re building her life by emma clayton emmactanda leisure and lifestyle editor a woman who survived a horrific attack by the yorkshire ripper has written a. 30 out of 5 stars the yorkshire ripper reviewed in the united states on june 30 2000 a good factual book written by a journalist who was involved very much with the police and fed off their briefings. 234 x 156 mm.
I think its a good introductory book on peter sutcliffe and it shows that not all killers have warped childhoods. I understand his father was a senior policeman. The true story of how peter sutcliffes terrible reign of terror claimed at least twenty two more lives paperback 29 jun.