Critical Compendium » The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath, by Charles van Onselen
The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath, by Charles van Onselen

“(Charles) Van Onselen’s long, disturbing and magnificently dogged book, The Fox and the Flies, takes us through a grim terrain spread across three continents, a world of squalor and violence, of prostitutes and pimps, of tenements and penitentiaries – the world of the ‘white slave trade’ – but it is to here that the trail keeps winding back, to London’s East End in 1888, to the scene in that bedroom in Miller’s Court, and to the unanswered question which is at least part of the Ripper’s enduring fascination: who was he?” Read the review at the London Review of Books.

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