Rivals Of The Ripper

Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750968575
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rivals of the Ripper written by Jan Bondeson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When discussing unsolved murders of women in late Victorian London, most people think of the depredations of Jack the Ripper, the Whitechapel Murderer. But he was just one of a string of phantom murderers whose unsolved slayings outraged late Victorian Britain. The mysterious Great Coram Street, Burton Crescent and Euston Square murders were talked about with bated breath, and the northern part of Bloomsbury got the unflattering nickname of the ‘murder neighbourhood’ thanks to its profusion of unsolved mysteries. Marvel at the convoluted Kingswood Mystery, littered with fake names and mistaken identities; be puzzled by the blackmail and secret marriage in the Cannon Street Murder; and shudder at the vicious yet silent killing in St Giles that took place in a crowded house in the dead of night. Rivals of the Ripper is the first to resurrect these unsolved Victorian murder mysteries, and to highlight the ghoulish handiwork of the Rivals of the Ripper: the spectral killers of gas-lit London.

Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750981865
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ripper of Waterloo Road written by Jan Bondeson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jack the Ripper first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his crimes were as ghastly as those committed by Eliza Grimwood's murderer fifty years earlier. Hers is arguably the most infamous and brutal of all nineteenth-century London killings. Eliza was a high-class prostitute, and on 26 May 1838, following an evening at the theatre, she brought a 'client' back to her home in Waterloo Road. The morning after, she was found with her throat cut and her abdomen viciously 'ripped'. The client was nowhere to be seen. The ensuing murder investigation was convoluted, with suspects ranging from an alcoholic bricklayer to a royal duke. Londoners from all walks of life followed the story with a horror and fascination – among them Charles Dickens, who took inspiration from Eliza's death when he wrote the murder of Nancy in Oliver Twist. Despite this feverish interest, the case was left unsolved, becoming the subject of 'penny dreadfuls' and urban legend. Unusually for a crime of this early period, the diary of the police officer leading the investigation has been preserved for posterity, and Jan Bondeson takes full advantage of this unique access to a Victorian murder inquiry. Skilfully dissecting what evidence remains, he links this murder with a series of other opportunist early Victorian slayings, and, in putting forward a credible new suspect, concludes that the Ripper of Waterloo Road was, in fact, a serial killer claiming as many as four victims.

Author : Guy Logan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445613888
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The True History of Jack the Ripper written by Guy Logan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does this long-forgotten novel hold the key to the mystery of the Whitechapel Murders of 1888?

Author : Kathleen Givens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416509933
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rivals for the Crown written by Kathleen Givens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Givens brings to life the passion and political treachery of 14th-century Scotland, after a dynastic feud for the crown explodes into a war for Scottish independence.

Author : David L. Golemon
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781250025401
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ripper written by David L. Golemon and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscent of the works of James Rollins, Preston and Child and Matthew Reilly, "Ripper" is the latest in an action-packed series about the nation's most secret agency and secret papers that link a mutant gene to Jack The Ripper.

Author : Gordon Lowe
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075096670X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acid Bath Murders written by Gordon Lowe and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John George Haigh committed five perfect murders – by dissolving his wealthy victims in sulphuric acid. Then he tipped away the resultant soup to avoid detection on a 'no body, no murder' principle and used his victims' property to fund his luxury lifestyle of silk ties and flashy cars. Murder number six was less than perfect. When a guest in Haigh's hotel disappeared, the police found half-dissolved body parts carelessly thrown into the yard outside his secluded workshop. But was the urbane Mr Haigh, the man brought up by strict Plymouth Brethren parents in Yorkshire and dressed like a city stockbroker, really the monster he said he was? Did he really kill six innocent people just so he could drink their blood? Using unpublished archive papers, including recently released letters Haigh wrote from prison while awaiting execution, author Gordon Lowe sheds light on whether Haigh's claims were a cynical ploy for a ticket into Broadmoor Hospital, or if he was a psychopathic vampire with a penchant for disposing of his victims in acid.

Author : Susan Dewey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351133896
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research written by Susan Dewey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Gaspard
Publisher : Cool Well Press
ISBN 13 : 9781618770271
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ripper Circuit written by John Gaspard and published by Cool Well Press. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445666316
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Murders written by Jan Bondeson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.

Author : Brandy Purdy
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 0758288905
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ripper's Wife written by Brandy Purdy and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful, spellbinding novel of love, jealousy, and murder, The Ripper's Wife reimagines the most notorious serial killer in history through the eyes of the woman who sealed his fate. "Love makes sane men mad and can turn a gentle man into a fiend." It begins as a fairytale romance--a shipboard meeting in 1880 between vivacious Southern belle Florence Chandler and handsome English cotton broker James Maybrick. Courtship and a lavish wedding soon follow, and the couple settles into an affluent Liverpool suburb. From the first, their marriage is doomed by lies. Florie, hardly the heiress her scheming mother portrayed, is treated as an outsider by fashionable English society. James's secrets are infinitely darker--he has a mistress, an arsenic addiction, and a vicious temper. But Florie has no inkling of her husband's depravity until she discovers his diary--and in it, a litany of bloody deeds. . .