THE FOX AND THE FLIES | CHARLES VAN ONSELEN IN SOUTH AFRICA

Subtitle: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath Author: Charles Van Onselen Publisher: Jonathan Cape (2007) ISBN-10: 0224079298 ISBN-13: 9780224079297 Condition: Very Good. Minor Shelf-ware. Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket Pages: 646 Dimensions: 24 x 16 x 4.3 cm +++ by Charles Van Onselen +++ A disturbed adolescent, youthful predator and adult misogynist driven by dark medival and biblical obsessions, Silver's mental universe remained largely hidden from his family, other gangsters and police handlers.  In this first reconstruction of the life of a dangerous psychopath, Charles van Onselen casts a brilliant light on the most infamous serial killer of all time - for Joseph Silver's darkest secret of all lay in London, in Whitechapel, in the autumn of 1888.