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Man Who Hunted Jack the Ripper, The (Connell & Evans, 2000)
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Man Who Hunted Jack the Ripper, The (Connell & Evans, 2000)
Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Tuesday, 18 January 2000 - 09:13 am |        | Advance Information
Coming from Rupert Books in March 2000:
The Man Who Hunted Jack the Ripper: Edmund Reid and the Police Perspective.
By Nicholas Connell and Stewart P. Evans
Introduction by Richard Whittington-Egan
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Something new on Jack the Ripper? The unknown brought death and terror to the streets of Victorian London's East End in 1888. Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, head of the Whitechapel detective force, was tasked with solving the mystery and led his men in a relentless pursuit of the Whitechapel Murderer throughout the horrific series of slayings which spanned the years 1888 to 1891. After his retirement in 1896, Reid often reminisced on his involvement in the great investigation, addressing all the theories as to the identity of Jack the Ripper that were aired during his lifetime. The Man who Hunted Jack the Ripper contains more new information on this series of crimes than any other previous book on the subject:
* It identifies the true facts behind the identity of the mysterious first victim, known as "Fairy Fay."
* It reveals several unknown, contemporary police suspects.
* It contains a likely identification of Mary Kelly's mysterious lover, "Morganstone."
* It includes a hitherto-unrecorded illustration of Reid's famous contemporary, Detective Inspector Frederick Abberline.
* It preents for the first time a full account of the City Police observations and a description of their suspect by a City detective.
* It divulges the truth about Anderson's suspect -- with Anderson's own commentary, never before published in a Ripper book.
* It offers a more detailed look than ever before at the suspect arrested in February 1891, whom the police believed to be the Ripper.
The Man Who Hunted Jack the Ripper is destined to become a classic work on the case and an indispensable tool to both researcher and enthusiast alike.
Nicholas Connel is the author of numerous historical articles, including several on Jack the Ripper. This is his first book.
Stewart P. Evans is a retired police officer, having served over twenty-seven years in the Suffolk constabulary. He is co-author of the 60,000-copy bestseller, Jack the Ripper: First American Serial Killer.
198 pages
27 photographs
Hardbound
Pictorial endpapers
Index
ISBN: 1 902791 05 3
Price: 18 pounds plus post
Publication date: March 2000
Available From:
Rupert Books
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Bar Hill
Cambridge CB3 8TE
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Author: Jon
Tuesday, 18 January 2000 - 07:21 pm | | I got the same flyer too Spry, but on the back was another add:
Special Offer!
The man who hunted Jack the Ripper (18 pounds) plus
Jack the Ripper: Anatomy of a myth (14 pounds)
both for 25 pounds (U.S.$43.25).
From the same Rupert Books.
rupert_books@compuserve.com
Regards, Jon |
Author: Scriblerius
Wednesday, 19 January 2000 - 05:12 am | | | Will these be available through amazon.co.uk? It's much more convenient for me to order with a credit card, particularly from overseas. |
Author: Christopher-Michael
Wednesday, 19 January 2000 - 08:57 am | | Actually, Scriblerius, you can order from Rupert Books with a credit card. Simply go to
rupert_books@compuserve.com
Additionally, for those not able to order, a limited number of signed copies of the book will be available for sale at Casebook Productions' US Conference on the Ripper, "Jack the Ripper: A Century of Myth," held at the Park Ridge Marriott hotel, Park Ridge NJ on April 8-9.
CMD |
Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Tuesday, 25 January 2000 - 08:01 am | |  |
Author: Stewart P Evans
Friday, 25 February 2000 - 06:13 pm | | | Anyone who may be in Olde London Towne next Wednesday 1st March may visit the London Dungeon in Tooley Street where the above book is being launched between 11.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. There should be a few celebrities present including a few Ripper authors. The authors of the book will be on hand, of course, to sign copies of the book if required. Hope to see you there. |
Author: Christopher T. George
Friday, 25 February 2000 - 07:38 pm | | Hi, Stewart:
Wish I could be there! To meet you and to hobnob with the galaxy of Ripper stars in attendance. Or should I say Saturn rockets in David Radka's terminology? Well we better not mix our metaphors. Ripperology is mixed up enough ha ha. All the best for the book signing. I am certain it will go well and you will sell a lot of books. I hope to be there for the next one!
Best regards
Chris George |
Author: Stewart P Evans
Thursday, 02 March 2000 - 03:09 am | | I would like to thank everyone who attended the launch of our book yesterday at the London Dungeon. This ensured that it was a highly successful and enjoyable event.
Apart from the celebrities, TV peronality and Ripper aficionado Jeremy Beadle, and actor Barry Morse (Lt Philip Gerard from the original 60's TV show The Fugitive), we were also pleased to see such leading 'Ripper' lights as Andy Aliffe, Paul Begg, Bernard Brown, Paul Daniel, Jeremy Moody, Robin Odell, Don Rumbelow, and many others. Thank you all. Special thanks, as usual, to Don Rumbelow for firmly keeping me in my place when I was in danger of getting carried away :-)
I chatted with Paul (Begg) who is looking very fit and well and looking forward to meeting many of our American friends at the first U.S. conference next month, as is Andy Aliffe and Jeremy Moody.
For those who have bought a copy of our book thank you and we hope that you enjoy reading it. It is, we feel, an entirely new approach to writing a 'Ripper' book at the same time providing much new material and a useful basis for new avenues of research.
Stewart |
Author: Stewart P Evans
Sunday, 02 April 2000 - 11:13 am | | It has been brought to my attention that in Martin Fido's review of our book in the current issue of Ripperologist he has claimed that we have made a couple of errors on relatively serious points and I would like to set the record straight.
The first point concerns the internal police memo of 15th September, 1888, putting Swanson in overall charge of the Whitechapel murders investigation. This instruction originates, as I have conclusively shown on these boards (General Discussion: Miscellaneous: The Dangers of Transcription, March 6, 2000), from Warren and not Anderson. It was addressed to the Assistant Commissioner, (A.C. Bruce), and then passed through Shore and Williamson to Swanson.
The second point concerns the ranks of the senior investigating officers in the enquiry, Abberline and Moore. Martin Fido still claims that Moore outranked Abberline. This claim is totally incorrect. It was an error originally made by Dew in his 1938 book I Caught Crippen and repeated in the A-Z. Martin still claims this is correct, He is wrong.
Abberline was promoted to the rank of Inspector in 1873, and to Inspector first class in 1888. In 1890 Abberline was promoted to Chief Inspector prior to his retirement in 1892.
Moore was promoted to the rank of Inspector in August 1878 (five years after Abberline achieved that rank), and to Inspector first class in December 1890 (over two years after Abberline), and then to Chief Inspector in September 1895 (a full five years after Abberline was made Chief Inspector and three years after Abberline retired!)
This message has been created owing to the fact that Martin has got these facts wrong in his review and people have been asking me about it. I think it underlines the necessity of checking primary sources before going to print correcting others. |
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