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They all love Jack : busting the Ripper
Title
They all love Jack : busting the Ripper / Bruce Robinson.
ISBN
9780062296375 (hbk.)
006229637X (hbk.)
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication
New York, NY : Infinitum Nihil, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]
Copyright Notice Date
©2015.
Physical Description
xiii, 850 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
A reinterpretation of the case of Jack the Ripper focuses on the "why" instead of the "who," theorizing that the residents of London society's finest homes created him as an outlet for their own hidden violent and taboo proclivities.
Other editions
Robinson, Bruce, 1946- They all love Jack London : Fourth Estate, 2015
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 17, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 805-831) and index.
Contents
Author's note
All the widow's men
A conspiracy of bafflement
The mystic tie
The funny little game
The savages
On the square
The ink-stained hack
The double event: part two
Rotten to the core
'They all love jack'
On Her Majesty's Service
The mouth of the maggot
A gentleman's lair
'Orpheus'
'The Ezekiel hit'
'Red tape'
'The spirit of evil'
'The Maybrick mystery'
Victorian values
Appendix I: The Parnell frame-up
Appendix II: A very curious letter.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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