<p>On October 24 1890 a woman's mutilated and lifeless body was discovered on a pile of rubbish in Hampstead north London. Her arms were lacerated her face crushed and bloodied and her head almost completely severed from her body. A mile away a blood-soaked stroller was found leaning against a residential gate. The dead baby's body hidden beneath a nettle bush was not located until the following morning.</p><p>So began the incredible story of the Hampstead Tragedy.</p><p>Eventually Scotland Yard knocked on the door of 2 Priory Street home to Mary Eleanor Pearcey the pretty twenty-four-year-old mistress of the victim's husband whose crimes inspired speculation that Jack the Ripper was a woman and whose dying request was as bizarre and mysterious as her life.</p><p>The first full-length examination of the extraordinary case <i>Woman at the Devil's</i> <i>Door</i> is a thrilling look at a notorious murderess and the webs she wove.</p>