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Inside the Mind of…Jack the Ripper In the novel The Diary of Jack the Ripper, by Shirley Harrison, we examine the question of whether or not this is the diary of James Maybrick, who is Harrison’s candidate for Jack the Ripper. Various pieces of evidence can prove that this is Jack the Ripper’s diary; however, it also can be argued that it is a hoax. In this essay I will display the …

…am also convinced by Koren’s inference that the author of the diary had multiply personalities due to the difference styles of writing presented in the diary. Although the author of the diary may not have always suffered from a psychological disorder, his childhood and other aspects of his life displayed that he was a ’ticking time bomb’, so to speak. James Maybrick demonstrated what Forshaw and Koren might call signs of a serial killer.