Carroty Nell: The Last Victim of Jack the Ripper Review

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(More customer reviews)It's been almost 125 years since Jack the Ripper launched his reign of terror on the streets of London, and authors still churn out book after book on just about every aspect of his crimes except one - the unfortunate women who became his victims. Carroty Nell begins to fill that void, and does it well. It tells the story of Frances Coles, supposedly the last of the Ripper's victims. Despite the book's assertive sub-title, some controversy surrounds that claim, and some Ripper enthusiasts are convinced that she was the victim of a copycat killer.

Almost the first third of the book is given over to providing the reader with background information. Mr. Keefe is a gifted writer with a knack for story telling, and while his concise accounts of the other Whitechapel murders might be "page turners" to those who aren't familiar with Jack the Ripper, more experienced readers may feel that perhaps a little too much of the book is spent going over already-familiar ground.

The middle part explores the life of "Carroty Nell". Here's where we find that the author has done his homework, and done it well. His book dispels much of the misinformation about her that continues to find its way into print and onto the Internet. He provides an almost hour-by-hour account of her activities during the days and hours leading up to her murder in a desolate underpass. It makes for compelling reading.

The book ends by exploring the gradual shift in public opinion, from the widely held belief at the time of her death that she was a Ripper-victim to the doubts that are often expressed today, and shows how much of that change in attitude came about because of a tendency on the part of the public to readily accept any comments made by anyone connected with the investigations - statements that are more likely to be seen today as merely self-serving.

Carroty Nell is well researched and well written, and Mr. Keefe makes a good case for Frances Coles being Jack the Ripper's final victim. I found it to be both interesting and enjoyable.

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The dimly-lit back streets of London's East End were practically deserted as a man and woman made their way through the pre-dawn darkness on a chilly February morning in 1891. No one saw the couple as they passed under the glare of a gas streetlamp, then turned and walked into a dark, tunnel-like passageway under some railway tracks. Had anyone been about, they might have taken the man to be a sailor, and they would have noticed that the woman was rather small and quite attractive. Victorians referred to people like her as unfortunates-impoverished women who turned to prostitution for survival. Her hope that night was just to earn enough money to get a place to sleep. Instead, she was destined to become the final victim of the dreaded killer known as Jack the Ripper.Carroty Nell tells the story of her tragic descent from a working class neighborhood to the mean streets of Whitechapel, and chronicles the events surrounding that fateful encounter.

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