Author Description

Historian and genealogist Lyn Dyson, in a departure from her usual local history publications, has produced a book with a new perspective on the life and death of Mary Jane Kelly, the last canonical victim of Jack the Ripper.Using her skills and experience as a genealogist and history researcher, she's spent months researching the subject with her novelist daughter Keira Michelle Telford, and together they've come up with new suggestions as to the identity of Mary Jane, some of her friends, family, lovers-and even Jack the Ripper himself.This non-fiction book is an accompaniment to a factional novel about the life of Mary Jane Kelly, written by award-winning author Keira Michelle Telford.