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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and of the Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography The award-winning best-selling true crime book that changes the narrative of the Ripper murders forever Polly Annie Elisabeth Catherine and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing though they never met. They came from some of London s wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods from the factory towns of middle England and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads ran coffeehouses lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. Now in this gripping work of social history Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight giving these women back their stories and painting a vivid portrait of Victorian London. By moving th