Mike Covell’s Blogg

As a rule of thumb I try and read every suspect based ripper book, but often find myself trailing off when fantastic leaps of imagination are made, or primary sources are discarded in favour of telling a good story. 

This week I am taking the unusual step of naming a suspect based book as my book of the week.

“From Hell” Bob Hinton.

I had taken a while to get this book and was waiting for the price to drop when I saw Amazon had copies for less than a tenner!  I ordered one and awaited it’s arrival!

When it finally landed and I started reading I found myself strangly drawn into the book, so much so that I could not put it down!  The book seemed to flow taking in events, locations and players in the victorian drama.

I loved the section on the types of weopon’s that could have been used on Tabram, and whilst I might not agree with Hinton’s suspect, I did enjoy the book, and the journey he made in getting there.

Before picking up the book I was suffering writers block, I have all the primary sources in massive folders, but making sense of them was another matter.  Hinton’s book really inspired me, and urged me to carry on with my work.

That alone made it a unique book!