Richard Wallace.
Jack the Ripper: "Light-hearted Friend."
Gemini Press. 1996. 293p. illustrations. index. ISBN 0-9627195-6-0.
paperback. $13.
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Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 12:58:52 -0400
From: Michael Rogers
Just when you think you've heard it all, here comes this bizarre volume. The author, apparently a therapist of some sort, here proposes the theory that Jack the Ripper was the Reverend Charles Dodgson, better known to the public as author Lewis Carroll, the "Alice in Wonderland" guy. Wallace claims Dodgson was sexually abused as a child which led him to become the Victorian serial killer. Completely ridiculous.
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