Ripper Hunter

Author : M. J. Trow
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783378555

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Ripper Hunter by M. J. Trow Pdf

True crime writer and novelist M. J. Trow’s Ripper Hunter is a revelatory biography of Frederick Abberline, the man assigned to catch Jack the Ripper. Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline, the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and his fellow policemen fail to catch the most notorious serial killer of Victorian England? What was he like as a man, as a professional policeman, one of the best detectives of his generation? And how did he investigate the sequence of squalid, bloody murders that repelled and fascinated contemporaries and has been the subject of keen controversy ever since? Here at last in M.J. Trow’s compelling biography of this pre-eminent Victorian policeman are the answers to these intriguing questions. Abberline’s story provides insight into his remarkable career, into the routines of Victorian policing, and into the Ripper case as it was seen by the best police minds of the day.

Author : Stephen Hunter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476764863

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I, Ripper by Stephen Hunter Pdf

Includes an excerpt from The third note.

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101971130

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The Big Book of Jack the Ripper by Otto Penzler Pdf

Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler's latest anthology takes its inspiration from the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper. Of the real-life serial killers whose gruesome acts have been splashed across headlines, none has reached the mythical status of Jack the Ripper. In the Ripper's wake, terror swept through the streets of London’s East End in the fall of 1888. As quickly as his nightmarish reign came, Saucy Jack vanished without a trace—leaving future generations to speculate upon his identity and whereabouts. He was diabolical in a way never seen before—a killer who taunted the police, came up with his own legendary monikers, and, ultimately, got away with his heinous crimes. More than a century later, the man “from hell” continues to live on in the imaginations of readers everywhere—and in some of the most spec­tacularly unnerving stories, both fiction and nonfiction, ever written. The Big Book of Jack the Ripper immerses you in the utterly chilling world of Red Jack’s London, where his unprecedented evil still lurks. Including: · Legendary stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes, Robert Bloch, and Ellery Queen · Captivating essays from George Bernard Shaw, Stephen Hunter, and Peter Underwood · Riveting new stories by contemporary masters Jeffrey Deaver, Loren D. Estleman, Lyndsay Faye, and many more · Astonishing theories from the world’s foremost Ripperologists From the Ripper Vault: · Demonic letters from Jack himself · Gruesome postmortem exams documenting all the bits and pieces of the cases · Harrowing witness statements taken on those hellish nights · Breaking newspaper accounts of the East End hysteria

Author : Donald Rumbelow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780753549933

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Complete Jack The Ripper by Donald Rumbelow Pdf

Fully updated and revised, Donald Rumbelow’s classic work is the ultimate examination of the facts, theories, fictions and fascinations surrounding the greatest whodunit in history. The Complete Jack the Ripper lays out all the evidence in the most comprehensive summary ever written about the Ripper. Rumbelow, a former London Metropolitan policeman, and an authority on crime, has subjected every theory – including those that have emerged in recent years – to the same deep scrutiny. He also examines the mythology surrounding the case and provides some fascinating insights into the portrayal of the Ripper on stage and screen and on the printed page. More seriously, he also examines the horrifying parallel crimes of the Düsseldorf Ripper and the Yorkshire Ripper in an attempt to throw further light on the atrocities of Victorian London.

Author : Daniel Cojocaru
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443883528

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Violence and Dystopia by Daniel Cojocaru Pdf

Violence and Dystopia is a critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating and sacrifice in selected contemporary Western dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. The first chapter offers an overview of the history of Western utopia/dystopia with a special emphasis on the problem of conflictive mimesis and scapegoating violence, and a critical introduction to Girard’s theory. The second chapter is devoted to J.G. Ballard’s seminal novel Crash (1973), Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club (1996) and Rant (2007), and Brad Anderson’s film The Machinist (2004). It is argued that the car crash functions as a metaphor for conflictive mimetic desire and leads to a quasi-sacrificial crisis as defined by Girard for archaic religion. The third chapter focuses on the psychogeographical writings of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd. Walking the streets of London the pedestrian represents the excluded underside of the world of Ballardian speed. The walking subject is portrayed in terms of the expelled victim of Girardian theory. The fourth chapter considers violent crowds as portrayed by Ballard’s late fiction, the writings of Stewart Home, and David Peace’s GB84 (2004). In accordance with Girard’s hypothesis, the discussed narratives reveal the failure of scapegoat expulsion to restore peace to the potentially self-destructive violent crowds. The fifth chapter examines the post-apocalyptic environments resulting from failed scapegoat expulsion and mimetic conflict out of control, as portrayed in Sinclair’s Radon Daughters (1994), Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003), and Will Self’s The Book of Dave (2006).

Author : Yvette Fielding
Publisher : Andersen Press Limited
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781787612402

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The Ripper of Whitechapel by Yvette Fielding Pdf

When the ghosts of two young children start to haunt a local school, trainee ghost hunters Eve, Clovis and Tom are invited to help investigate the case. But before long they realise there is more to this haunting than they first realised. Could it be that the ghost children are victims of Jack the Ripper? And is the evil Ripper of Whitechapel about to unleash a new campaign of terror from beyond the grave?

Author : Paul Gainey,Stewart Evans
Publisher : Random House
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781448185108

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Jack The Ripper by Paul Gainey,Stewart Evans Pdf

Stewart Evans is a policeman whose hobby is collecting true crime ephemera. When a second hand bookseller rang to ask him if he would be interested in a collection of letters from the Special Branch, he had no idea of the sensational revelation they would contain. One of these letters supplied an astonishing piece of infomation not contained in the decimated Scotland Yard files. The police had actually arrested and charged an American with the Ripper murders, but he escaped and disappeared in America. The Ripper murders ceased. The book reveals for the first time the identity of Jack the Ripper.

Author : R. J. Bavister
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291282047

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The Evil Busters Chronicles: Complete Saga by R. J. Bavister Pdf

Author : R. J. Bavister
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291282009

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The Evil Busters Chronicles: Part 2 by R. J. Bavister Pdf

Author : Katy Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443831178

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Analysing David Peace by Katy Shaw Pdf

Analysing David Peace provides an exciting, challenging and accessible critical introduction to the work of contemporary British novelist David Peace. Through a detailed analysis of his writings, as well as the socio-cultural contexts of their production and dissemination, the collection explores Peace’s attempts to capture the sensibilities of late twentieth century society and contributes to an ongoing debate in the media about his representations. Peace is an emerging author who is widely read and taught and whose novels are increasingly celebrated. In the past decade Peace has won the James Tait Black Memorial Award and was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. The four novels of his Red Riding Quartet interrogate British society of the 1970s/80s through the prism of the hunt for the serial killer dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper. GB84 examines the machinations of the 1984–5 UK miners’ strike, while The Damned United explores relationships between masculinity and football through the doomed reign of manager Brian Clough at British football club Leeds United in 1974. In the Tokyo Trilogy, Peace develops an interest in occupation and the occult, interrogating Japan’s post-war legacy of defeat and its resonance to our contemporary world. This collection offers an essential guide to the work of David Peace, as well as a unique insight into his canon to date.

Author : Stewart P Evans,Keith Skinner
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-02-20
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780750953818

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Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell by Stewart P Evans,Keith Skinner Pdf

The name 'Jack the Ripper' is instantly recognised throughout the world, yet many people probably don't know that the famous nickname first appeared in a letter or that this was where the whole legend of Jack the Ripper really began. This title poses a controversial question: was 'Jack the Ripper' merely a press invention?

Author : Lexi Blake
Publisher : DLZ Entertainment LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937608347

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Ripper by Lexi Blake Pdf

A New Heroine Rises… Kelsey Atwood is a private detective with a problem. She came from a family of hunters, growing up on the wrong side of the supernatural world. Tracking down bail jumpers and deadbeat dads may not make her a lot of friends, but it’s a lot safer than the life she turned her back on. She was hoping to escape from the nightmares of her past, but her latest case has brought them right back to her door. A young woman has gone missing, and she didn’t go willingly. When Kelsey discovers that the girl is actually a shifter, she knows she should drop the case and walk away. But this shifter was a sweet kid, and she’s in serious trouble. More females are missing and the evidence points to a legendary killer. Bodies are piling up, and her case is becoming center stage for a conflict that could shatter the fragile peace between wolves and vampires. As the hunt intensifies, she finds herself trapped between two men—Gray, a magnetic half-demon lawman, and the ancient vampire Marcus Vorenus. Both men call to her, but when a shocking secret about Kelsey’s family is revealed, it could ruin them all. To stop the killer, she will have to embrace the truth about who—and what—she truly is. A Hunter: A Thieves Series Novel by Lexi Blake

Author : Sarah Bax Horton
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781789295177

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One-Armed Jack by Sarah Bax Horton Pdf

Bringing a completely new analytical approach to the identity of the most notorious murderer in history, Sarah Bax Horton presents compelling evidence and names the real Jack the Ripper.

Author : Stewart P Evans,Donald Rumbelow
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780752499253

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Jack the Ripper Scotland Yard by Stewart P Evans,Donald Rumbelow Pdf

IN 1888 the dreaded figure of Jack the Ripper stalked London's East End murdering prostitutes. His crimes set in motion a huge police operation and have held a dark fascination over the public's imagination for over a century, yet his identity has never been proved. Now, for the first time, two leading Ripper experts have joined forces to treat the case like a police investigation. Drawing on their unparalleled knowledge of the Jack the Ripper murders and their professional experience as police officers, they uncover clues that have remained undetected for over a hundred years. There are five 'canonical' Ripper victims, yet Scotland Yard's 'Whitechapel Murders' files include another six suspected victims. Drawing the reader into the world of police investigation in Victorian London, Evans and Rumbelow reveal the conflict between the City and Metropolitan forces and the ridicule heaped on the police by the press. Investigating each murder, they conclude that only four of the eleven victims were actually killed by the Ripper. Perhaps most tellingly, they question the motives behind the destruction of evidence - particularly the message 'The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing', which was chalked on the wall near one murder site and rubbed out on order of the Chief Commissioner - and ask whether the enigmatic Dr Robert Anderson, officer in charge of the investigation, knew the Ripper's true identity. Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates strips away much of the nonsense that has accumulated since 1888 and reopens files on a case that will perhaps never be fully solved but will always fascinate.

Author : Carol Brightman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780671011178

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Sweet Chaos by Carol Brightman Pdf

A social and cultural history of the Grateful Dead, America's greatest folk/rock institution, by a "National Book Critics Circle Award"-winning author. 8-page photo insert.