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Books by Hallie Rubenhold

Hallie Rubenhold is a British historian and a bestselling author. She debuted with “The Covent Garden Lilies,” an accessible history of an 18th-century directory of London prostitutes. The book was adapted into a BBC documentary, “The Harlot’s Handbook,” which was presented by Rubenhold herself. Rubenhold’s 2019 book “The Five” was awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize and was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize.

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The Five

Hallie Rubenhold

In the autumn of 1888, a serial killer murdered and mutilated five impoverished women in the dark, foggy streets of London. Before too long, he became a children’s bogeyman, a myth, a supernatural creature known only under his gruesome pseudonym: Jack the Ripper. But “The Five” by Hallie Rubenhold isn’t a book about him. It is a book about his victims. And it’s exquisite.

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