Christopher Jones is a graduate in Modern History and Politics from Liverpool University. He was for many years Head of History in a Merseyside school and is currently a Deputy Headteacher in a large Liverpool Comprehensive. In 2007 he organised the Trial of James Maybrick at Liverpool Cricket Club, an event that was part of Liverpool’s Capital of Culture celebrations.

Titles by Chris Jones

The Maybrick A to Z

The Maybrick story has everything: sex, adultery, prostitution, drugs, an American beauty, a dramatic murder trial, interventions by Queen Victoria and three US Presidents, and of course, Jack the Ripper. The Maybrick A to Z provides a comprehensive and impartial guide to the two separate yet interlinked stories that made headline news across the world in two different centuries. Did Florence Maybrick murder her husband with arsenic? Did James Maybrick become the world’s first and most infamous serial killer? The book also contains three opening chapters that provide an overview of the story of the lives of James and Florence Maybrick; the evidence and drama of Florence’s trial in 1889; and the controversy surrounding the emergence of the so-called Ripper Diary in the 1990s that made James Maybrick a leading candidate to be Jack the Ripper.

Price £14.95

Details

• ISBN 9781906823009
• Publisher Countyvise
• Genre Educational Resource
• Setting Merseyside