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JACK THE RIPPER
IN FACT AND FICTION
NEW AND REVISED EDITION
BY ROBIN ODELL
ISBN
978-1869928-308
Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford
Price: £12.99 / $26
Format: Trade paperback
Category: True Crime / Criminology / Ripperology
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JACK
THE RIPPER |
JACK THE RIPPER
IN FACT AND FICTION
In the autumn of 1888 the streets
of London were streets of
terror. The cause - a series of mysterious and apparently motiveless
murders.
Respectable citizens cowered behind shuttered windows and multi-locked doors. Ironically, however, it was not the respectable who were in danger.
The victims were all drawn from the trade which necessity still compelled to haunt dark alleys and doorways at dead of night - the prostitutes.
Theories on the identity of the murderer have been many and various: that he was a fashionable doctor, even that he was a she - a midwife.
Robin Odell has produced an absorbing factual reconstruction of all the crimes and a brilliant new theory, based on modern methods of detection,to solve the greatest mystery in British criminology. Most readers will accept his theory as the long-sought answer to a baffling real-life whodunit:as the most likely epitaph on a terror known as
JACK THE RIPPER
IN FACT
AND FICTION
Robin Odell won the Gold Medal at the 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the True Crime category for Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer (Kent State University Press) and is a nominee of the Mystery Writers of America 2007 Edgar Allan Poe Awards.
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JACK THE RIPPER
IN FACT AND FICTION
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founding texts of the study'
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JACK
THE RIPPER |
THE AUTHOR
Robin Odell was born in Hampshire in 1935. After working as a university laboratory technician and completing his National Service, he developed an interest in crime writing.
His JACK THE RIPPER IN FACT AND FICTION published by Harrap (1965), is still regarded as a major contribution to the subject. In a writing career spanning more than thirty-five years, he has written or co-written sixteen books. He now lives in South Oxfordshire and continues to write and lecture on crime and criminology.
He
acknowledges his debt to the researches of the late Dr Hubert Trumper,
a medical practitioner in Hay-on-Wye, and the late Joe Gaute, distinguished
crime historian and publisher. Their combined efforts sustained over several
years brought many insights to bear on the life and trial of Major Armstrong.
EXHUMATION
OF A MURDER
The
Life and Trial
of Major Armstrong
by ROBIN ODELL
ISBN 186992892x
New ISBN 9 781869 928926
Publisher:
Mandrake of Oxford
Price: £12.99
/ 284pp
Format: Trade Paperback
Category: True Crime / Criminology / Law
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Exhumation
of A Murder / |
''The case of Major Armstrong, the celebrated Hay Poisoner, the only solicitor ever to hang, is one of those classic, old-fashioned English murders which hail from the heyday of court-room drama when, with the hangman lurking in the pine-and-panel wings and the black cap an object of horrifyingly alarming currency rather than mere symbolism, the loser in 'the black dock's dreadful pen' lost all. It comes straight out of the pages of George Orwell's essayed nostalgia for the era of the Great British Murder, when, after a Sunday lunch of roast beef and Yorkshire, you put your feet up on the sofa and, with a good strong cup of mahogany-brown tea, read all about the latest 'good' murder in the News of the World. And the Armstrong case was unquestionably one of the best; right up there in the grand tradition of Dr Palmer of Rugeley, Neill Cream, Mrs Maybrick, Dr Crippen, Seddon, and George Joseph Smith.''
- Richard Whittington-Egan
''Now the case itself, as has been said to you, is a remarkable one, a deeply interesting one and I doubt whether any of us engaged here today have in recollection so remarkable a case in its incidents.''-
Mr Justice Darling,
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