Elizabeth Stride and Jack the Ripper

<p> As soon as the newspapers hit the streets on October 1 1888 Elizabeth Stride became world renowned as the third victim of Jack the Ripper. Reportedly Stride was killed only an hour before fellow victim Catherine Eddowes becoming a key player in the legendary double event of Jack the Ripper's brief but notorious killing career.</p><p> This book tells the complete life story of Elisabeth Gustafsdotter beginning with her birth in Sweden during the winter of 1843. The author describes Stride's reported habitual drunkenness her brief career as a prostitute and the public aftermath of her untimely death. Period photos and sketches are included throughout the work along with several appendices and an index.</p>