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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 3155
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Monday, November 15, 2004 - 9:52 am: |       |
Ms. Jack the Ripper
by John Keith Beddow
1-932998-07-1
Five disgusting, gruesome murders were committed in Whitechapel, a poor district of the East End of London, in the Fall of 1888. All of the victims were women. They were horribly mutilated. The murderer was able to move unseen, and to act unchecked. No legal authority has ever been able to present irrefutable evidence of the guilt of any person in these crimes. The perpetrator was given the nickname of Jack the Ripper. Officially, the motive, or motives, for the killings remain unknown. The savagery of the mutilations remains unexplained. The thesis of this book is based on statements contained in a diary that was discovered by the author in a wall cavity in his London office in 1963. At that time, his office was located in an old building known formerly as the Angel Islington – a one-time public house. Entries in the diary revealed that its author, an aristocrat, a woman by the name of Lady Rowena Worsley-Hanover, had committed the Ripper murders. Her motive was one of revenge. It was because she was a woman that she was able to approach her victims without arousing their suspicions. Because she was a woman, she was able to move around the Whitechapel streets without the authorities noticing her. Everybody ‘knew’ that Jack the Ripper was a man. They never suspected the Ripper was a woman. The Honorable Cecil Worsley-Hanover thoroughly enjoyed the company of prostitutes and in particular, ravishing young girls – the younger the better. He should have been more careful, not all of his conquests were clean and fresh. He became infected with syphilis. Because of his drunken and debauched lifestyle, the disease progressed very rapidly. When his mother discovered her son’s condition, there was nothing she could do to save him. Her hopes for his rise in the ranks of the British aristocracy were frustrated and ultimately destroyed – and her hopes for her family’s future along with them. Cecil died insane, locked in his residential suite in the family mansion in Hyde Park. Grief stricken, Lady Rowena buried her darling son in the family vault. The acid of revenge burned in her brain. She tracked down the women that most likely infected him and constructed a short list of names. May Ann Nichols. Annie Chapman. Elizabeth Stride. Catherine Eddowes. Mary Jeanette Kelly The rest is history. The author, John Keith Beddow, was born and educated in England. His life’s ambition is to be an all-rounder. He received the B.Tech., with honors from UMIST in 1954, and the Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1959. In his youth he played cricket, rugby, and rowed in an 8. He began jogging in 1942 and continues to this day. He has worked as an industrial research scientist, a university engineering professor, a production and development manager, a research group director, an industrial consultant, a real estate investor/broker, the CEO of his own instrument company, the president of an international scientific association, and as founder and editor of an international technical journal. Dr. Beddow has lectured all over the world and has authored 20 technical books, 120 technical papers, 12 novels, and 10 nonfiction books. Recently he founded the nonprofit US College of Powder Technology. He has been married to beautiful, Irish Joan for ~50 years. They have 4 daughters and 4+ grandchildren. Hobbies include playing piano, attending concerts & operas. AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PRESS 823 Weldon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93109 1-932998-07-1
Publisher/author website: http://www.beddowbooks.com/
Barnes and Noble is listing this as a January 2005 release.
Stephen P. Ryder, Exec. Editor
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Chris Phillips
Chief Inspector
Username: Cgp100
Post Number: 512
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 15, 2004 - 10:24 am: | |
Mercifully, this is listed in the Fiction section of the publisher's/author's website.
Chris Phillips
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Christopher T George
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 1086
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 15, 2004 - 11:20 am: | |
Hi all
No doubt another classic to put on one's shelf besides the author's Invasion of the Ifrits. -- "Science fiction about an invasion of a west coast seaside resort by alien beings called Ifrits" ... Real America -- "Science Fiction/fantasy. About another country existing in secret within the United States of America" ... Getting Away With It -- "Bumbling plus prayer produces success and joy. An autobiography. Available soon."
Chris
Christopher T. George
North American Editor
Ripperologist
http://www.ripperologist.info
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Howard Brown
Detective Sergeant
Username: Howard
Post Number: 118
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 15, 2004 - 4:13 pm: | |
The thesis of this book is based on statements contained in a diary that was discovered by the author in a wall cavity in his London office in 1963
Oy vey !!! Not another one !!! |
AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 1499
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 15, 2004 - 5:29 pm: | |
Poor old tired whores.
It is nice that some one remembered them as 'ravishing young girls'.
He must have drunk a lot of gin.
Just like they did.
Another dairy of gin. |
Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 3159
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 6:43 pm: | |
Apologies, folks. I've been in touch with the author now, and Mr. Beddow assures me this is indeed a work of fiction.
I'm moving this thread to the appropriate Fiction board. Sorry for any confusion. 
Stephen P. Ryder, Exec. Editor
Casebook: Jack the Ripper |
Kelly Robinson
Detective Sergeant
Username: Kelly
Post Number: 96
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 12:33 pm: | |
It's pretty common now for fiction to pretend to be true on the cover. It's misleading, but I think the publishers just consider the cover blurbs part of the fiction. A recent example is Memoirs of a Geisha, which has an introduction that goes into detail about the interview techniques used!
-K
"The past isn't over. It isn't even past."
William Faulkner |
Christopher T George
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 1096
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 12:42 pm: | |
Hi Kelly
Conversely, it is an age-old fictional trick to pretend that the story came from a recently discovered old manuscript or diary, or else the "true story" has been covered up for reasons of government secrecy, or the machinations of organizations from Nazis to freemasons to the Church in Rome, a strategy that has suited writers as various as Frederick Forsyth, Dee Brown, and, yes, Stephen Knight.
All the best
Chris
Christopher T. George
North American Editor
Ripperologist
http://www.ripperologist.info
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Kelly Robinson
Detective Sergeant
Username: Kelly
Post Number: 97
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 3:33 pm: | |
...which is even sneakier in its way. Myself, I like my fiction fictitious and my non-fiction true. You'd think it'd be easy. I guess we know better than a lot of people how hard it is to find facts in your non-fiction sometimes!
-K
"The past isn't over. It isn't even past."
William Faulkner |
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