By Philippa Tracy
Hallie Rubenhold’s book The Five is the story of the ‘canonical five’ victims of Jack the Ripper: Mary Ann or ‘Polly’ Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly. All five were brutally murdered in London, between August 31 and November 9, 1888. This book does not explore who the killer was, or may have been, or the details of his appalling crimes. Instead,
