The Man Who Would Be Jack

In 1891, just weeks after the last Whitechapel murder, detective William Race began to wonder whether Thomas Cutbush, a man he had arrested for savage knife attacks on two girls, was Jack the Ripper. Frustrated by his superiors' lack of interest in this lead, Race enlisted the help of the press, who collected compelling eyewitness testimony. David Bullock uses long-hidden records to explore this evidence and to describe the huge journalistic investigation which ensued.