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The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco by Robert Graysmith

jobetta's review

1.0

Sounded interesting, as I love Jack the Ripper, but Graysmith's theory is very weak and while the stories of the murders in question should have been interesting, he took so long to get to the point that they were an afterthought. As a journalist, I also thought I would enjoy the part of the book about the newspaper wars in San Francisco at the turn of the century, but that wound up just being cumbersome. Both my boyfriend, also a journalist, and I read the book and although we are both fast readers, neither of us could get through this easily. By the end, we were cursing the book and our stubborn refusal to read to the very end.