Publisher's Synopsis
In 1889, Victorian England was shocked to its very core, by a scandalous murder case in Liverpool. A young American woman, Florence Maybrick, was found guilty of killing her much older husband, James Maybrick, by poisoning him with arsenic extracted from flypapers. It was a story that had everything: sex, drugs and adultery. Queen Victoria and three American presidents were to be caught up in the drama. Florence was to spend fifteen years in prison for the crime, but did she really murder her husband?
In 1992, the story took a new and even more dramatic twist. A diary was found, allegedly written by James Maybrick, in which he supposedly confessed to being the world's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. The diary has proved to be one of the most controversial historical documents of all time. To some, the diary is a true account, a window into the mind of the killer. To others, it is an obvious and transparent hoax.
In 2022, the authors of this book published their award-winning book into the Maybrick murder case and the Diary of Jack the Ripper. Using a large amount of new material and research, they provided answers to two of the greatest mysteries in the annals of crime. In this new edition, they have provided an even greater insight into lives of James and Florence Maybrick and the so-called Ripper Diary and the Maybrick Watch.
