Contents
A Study In Red (The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper)
Acknowledgements 2020 Updated
Introduction
AN EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL
To my dearest nephew…
1. A Revelation
2. The Journal Begins
3. A Cry for Help?
4. Tension
5. Countdown to Mayhem
6. A Last Semblance of Calm
7. The Real Work Begins
8. A Quiet Evening
9. Metamorphosis?
10. Leather Apron
11. From Hell?
12. Relative Calm
13. A Pause for Thought
14. Where is Hell?
15. The Morning of the Second Day
16. Jack’s Sudden Illness
17. Where Men Go Down to the Sea in Ships
18. A Voice from the Grave?
19. Of Journals and Journalism
20. ‘Dear Boss’
21. Thoughts of Past and Present
22. An Image of Hell
23. With the coming of the Night
24. ‘Murder, ‘orrible murder!’
25. The Morning after the Night Before
26. “Welcome Home, Robert”
27. Russian Roulette
28. Confused thoughts
29. A Time to Wake, A Time to Sleep
30. And So to Bed
31. And so to Sleep, Perchance to Dream
32. Miller’s Court
33. A Confession
34. Mary, Mary, Sweet Little Mary
35. Deadline
36. A Motive for the Ripper?
37. An End in Sight
38. A Single Voice, Crying in the Night
39. A Question of Ethics?
40. A Time of Decision
41. The Last Confession
42. Nothing is ever quite as it Seems
Epilogue
Author’s Footnote
Legacy of the Ripper
Acknowledgements Updated
In the Beginning
My Name is Jack
1. A Career Move
2. In the Beginning
3. A Link to the Past?
4. Sarah’s Confession
5. Laura Kane
6. The Photograph
7. A Chance Meeting
8. Escalation
9. Catherine Street
10. The Parents
11. Cousin Mark
12. Breakfast at Michael’s
13. The House on Abbotsford Road
14. Postmortem
15. A Few Words from Doctor Ruth
16. Good News, and Bad News
17. The Office of Giles Morris
18. Jacob’s Awakening
19. The Tale of Jack the Ripper
20. The Morning After the Night Before
21. A Plan of Action?
22. The Man in the Dark Room
23. Questions and Answers
24. More Facts, No Clues
25. Prisoner
26. Alice Geraldine Nickels
27. A Plan
28. A Very Private Hell
29. Doctor Ruth Takes Up the Story Once Again
30. Interrogation, Disbelief, and Arraignment
31. Trial and Retribution
32. A Shadow of Doubt
33. Alice Nickels Investigates
34. Guilt by Heredity?
35. An Audience with Jack Reid
36. Mike Holland’s Polish Odyssey
37. The Judgement
From the Pen of Jack Thomas Reid
Requiem for The Ripper
Acknowledgements 2020
Acknowledgments 2010
Introduction to The Study in Red
A Study in Red - The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper
Legacy of The Ripper
And now the final instalment begins
1. Skerries Rock
2. Preparations
3. William Forbes
4. A Piece of Yellowed Paper
5. The Story Begins
6. The Birth of a Monster?
7. The Crimes of Jack the Ripper
8. The Confession of Burton Cleveland Cavendish
9. The Cavendish Legacy
10. A Phone Call in the Night
11. Kate’s Arrival
12. First Impressions
13. A Question
14. Jack
15. Kate’s Revelation
16. A Shadow in the Night
17. The Music of the Night?
18. Discordant Melody
19. The Journal
20. An Eternal Entity?
21. Jack Reid’s Confession
22. A New Day Dawns
23. Transformation
24. A Walk on the Wild Side
25. Who is it?
26. Something and Nothing
27. A Grim Realisation
28. Screaming Walls
29. The Fires of Hell?
30. Requiem
Epilogue
About the Author