He thrust his knee into her belly and held her head hard against the brick wall. The palm of his left hand pushed up against her mouth and nostrils and he pressed his fingers into the sockets of her eyes. In his right hand he held a small butcher's knife and, with the force of a hammer blow, he jabbed it into the right side of her neck, just below her jaw. She made no sound; nor did he, as he pulled out the knife and struck again, this time tearing a line across her neck, from one side to the other, slitting her throat from ear to ear, plunging in the knife so deep that the tip of the blade reached as far as her vertebrae.
Blood trickled from her and he stepped back to let her body slide down the wall and slump to the ground. Bending forward, he rolled the woman over, tore open her coat and jacket and blouse, pulled up her skirt and petticoats, and stabbed her repeatedly in the chest and stomach and groin. In all, he struck her thirty-nine times.
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Jack the Ripper Case Closed ---- BY Gyles Brandreth
Mystery / Thrillerthis isn't my own story all the credit goes to Gyles Brandreth, but this is my absolute second favourite book. LONDON. 1894. 'I am not a detective, chief constable.' 'No, but you are a poet, a freemason and a man of the world. All useful qualificati...
