PARADOX Upon Jack the Ripper Poetry and Francis Joseph Thompson

Softcover. The author introduced the English poet Francis Joseph Thompson (1859-1907) as a suspect in the Whitechapel murder case of 1888. He also claims that Alice and Wilfred Meynell, the editors of the 'Merry England', knew of Thompson's crimes and withheld their knowledge from the police, and that other key figures of modern English literature also knew the identity of JtR. With Bibliog. and Addendum. 103pp. 8vo. soft cover. Nr. F. Now scarce.