- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (26 May 1981)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0586055266
- ISBN-13: 978-0586055267
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 298,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When Sgt. Robert Ring used to patrol the sprawling Wybourne council estate he set some sort of record for spotting disqualified drivers. He never forgot a face. Ten minutes before 11p.m. on the second day of the New Year (1981) Ring, a policeman in Sheffield for 26 years, sat in a South Yorkshire Chevette 'Panda' car and studied the V8 Rover 3500 in the drive of Light Trades House, headquarters of BISPA (British Iron and Steel Producers), off Melbourne Avenue, leafy and dark, perfect for 'business'.
P.C. Robert Hynes was 31, a father of two, although still only a probationer with the force. He had been in less than a year since deciding to leave his job in the engineering industry. It would be good experience for him to go and speak to the young lady in the car and see what her game was. They strolled up to the Rover and tapped on the driver's window. The man with the jet-black beard and wavy, almost crinkly hair, seemed nervous, agitated. His name, he claimed, was Peter Williams, and this was his girlfriend.
By the time that first weekend of the year was over P.C. Hydes and Sgt. Ring were the most famous coppers in the world. The girl in the passenger seat of the Rover was just glad to be alive.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is OK in that it gives you the facts, but like another reviewer said, it doesn't really try and explore the psychology of the serial killer. I would have liked something more detailed with comparisons to other similar cases and more thought about psychology, etc. It's obviously written by a journalist, he gives you the facts but remains on a relatively superficial level.
On a side note, the quality of the photographs in the paperback version is absolutely appalling, they look like cheap photocopies.
On a side note, the quality of the photographs in the paperback version is absolutely appalling, they look like cheap photocopies.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I brought this book around a week ago from the shop...; and, have only just now finished reading it...; after finding it very difficult, indeed, to go put down. I think the reason why I went and brought the book in the first place was to find out exactly how Peter Sutcliffe/The...so-called...Ripper himself thinks??? But, unfortunately, this book did very little to teach me about how he himself actually thought(perhaps, nobody knows for sure-that is, apart from the actual man himself). The book did explain a bit about how he was brought up(quiet/shy/reserved/scared enough to go skip school)/what his adult jobs were(including grave digger/long distance lorry driver-he cried when the boss, sometimes, told him off)/he got married/his wife suffered multiple miscarriages/he was a regular pub drinker/though married he also slept with whores/-etc. Too, it explains just how much police work went into catching him (including after being given totally false leads, such as the well publicised tape -Geordie voice- recording/letters/-etc.). It's also revealing in describing more about who the Rippers victims were...explaining what kind of lives they lived either before they were killed off/or else, after they were attacked(because some of his victims -around 6- did actually manage to survive-going on to live broken lives, afterwards). The guy didn't just kill prostitutes, apparently; he also killed girls who he merely thought looked like prostitutes; but, in reality, were not. At the end of the book for me there were many questions still left wholly unanswered...such as, exactly...why...did he do it??? And, do it so vehemently as to go stab someone multiple times for?! To know that I suppose he would have to give a personal interview to this books author...which, quite obviously, he did not do. In many ways the book left me with a deeply unsatisfied feeling that I wanted to know more about The Rippers own internal thinking...and, not just about what all of the others thought (including, police/press/victims/his wife/his family/friends/judge/jury/-etc). All in all, though, a good read...; and, a great introduction to the story.
Format:Paperback
This is perhaps one of the most written about serial killers.The press became interested because of the term'Yorkshire Ripper' that got to be used in the case.and the notorious letters and tapes from the Sunderland area.It is always difficult to write a book where the knowledge of the crimes is so much in the public domain, but Roger Cross does sa good job in giving an overview of the cases, and some interpretation. Criticism of the book decries no insight into why Peter Sutcliffe commited these horrofic mutilations and murders,but I am not sure you will ever find out because of the deviousness,complexity and sheer madness of the person. There was a little bit of an insight into the background of Peter Sutcliffe,but like Ian Brady there seems to be no obvious trigger,perhaps they are just bad.
I enjoyed the book, and those coming fresh to the details-they started happening 37 years ago, and his conviction was over thirty years ago-then it is a useful introduction, and a motivator to read perhaps more that has been written.
I enjoyed the book, and those coming fresh to the details-they started happening 37 years ago, and his conviction was over thirty years ago-then it is a useful introduction, and a motivator to read perhaps more that has been written.
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The entire investigation accurately and succinctly.
I throughrougly enjoyed this book, a very informative and concise account of the Ripper case.
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Published on 2 April 2010 by Emma J. Bailey
The Yorkshire Ripper
A very interesting read not sure how it got away with these crimes for so long. A very clever man but a crime that happened in my younger years makes this read interesting.
Published on 6 Sep 2009 by Mrs. Beverley A. Groves
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I work very close to where Peter Sutcliffe was finally arrested so was interested in finding out more. This is more or less a straight forward report into the killings. Read more
Published on 29 May 2007 by Mr. M. Bloomfield
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This is an excellent book for non-fiction and true crime lovers, anywhere. It has a full account of each murder in turn and delves deeply into all aspects of the case, eventually... Read more
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