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Author | : Thomas Toughill |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2012-05-30 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0752487175 |
"The Ripper Code" is a fascinating combination of literary and conventional detective work, which is as original as it is enthralling. After showing that the official Ripper files contain little of forensic interest, the author approaches the subject of the killer's identity from an entirely different angle - the life and works of Oscar Wilde. He suggests that the Ripper was a 'friend' of Oscar Wilde, and that Wilde dropped clear hints about this in several of his works, most notably "The Picture of Dorian Gray", which he wrote in 1889, the year after the Ripper murders took place. The author also claims that Jack the Ripper was placed in an asylum after the last murder in order to keep secret a royal indiscretion, and that Marie Belloc Lowndes based her famous novel The Lodger on what she had learned about the Ripper from her friend Wilde. This paperback edition contains a brand-new chapter on Montague John Druitt, the police's prime suspect, in which the author explains the significance of his Rosetta Stone-like discovery that Druitt was barred from the prestigious Oxford Union, and uses that breakthrough to decipher the mysteries surrounding him which have defied students of this case since his name first came to light fifty years ago.
Author | : Nabil Shaban |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
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ISBN | : 9780954829421 |
Author | : Thomas Toughill |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2012-05-30 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0752487175 |
Was Jack the Ripper an artist called Frank Miles? Toughill suggests that this former 'friend' of Oscar Wilde was indeed the killer, and that Wilde dropped hints about this in several of his works, most notably The Picture of Dorian Gray, which Wilde wrote in 1889, the year after the Ripper murders took place. In fascinating detail, the author argues that Wilde's story, that of a privileged man whose life of vice in the East End of London turns him into a murderer, is in fact a coded message about the Ripper's identity. However, The Ripper Code is not just a fascinating voyage through the writings of Oscar Wilde and others. It is also a striking example of original detective work. Here, as in his previous books, Toughill unveils stunning evidence from a hitherto untapped source and uses it to devastating effect in arguing his case. The result is a book which is as original as it is enthralling.
Author | : Gary Coville |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2015-06-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476607370 |
The identity of Jack the Ripper has consumed public curiosity since he first tormented the East End of London in 1888. Numerous theories have been offered as to his identity, but he remains in the shadows where, it seems, only imaginative literature has been able to elucidate his meaning to the modern world. This work surveys the literary, film, television, and radio treatments of Jack the Ripper and his crimes. The works of fiction are thoroughly analyzed, as are the major nonfiction works that have offered various theories about the Ripper's identity. Works whose narratives are obviously inspired by Jack the Ripper and his crimes are also discussed.
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Publisher | : Delene Kvasnicka |
Total Pages | : 818 |
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Author | : Pat Shaughnessy |
Publisher | : No Starch Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1593275277 |
"An under-the-hood look at how the Ruby programming language runs code. Extensively illustrated with complete explanations and hands-on experiments. Covers Ruby 2.x"--
Author | : T. J. Klevinsky |
Publisher | : Addison-Wesley Professional |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780201719567 |
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Author | : Mike Holgate |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2008-07-14 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0750953837 |
Rippermania has driven a 120-year-old investigation to identify the depraved perpetrator of the savage murder of five prostitutes in the East End of London. This book features personalities whose reputations have been tarnished by modern authors clamouring to name celebrities as suspects, accomplices or conspirators.
Author | : Randy Rasmussen |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2015-11-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476613761 |
Stanley Kubrick had a great talent for creating memorable images--such as his famous jump cut from a bone tossed into the prehistoric sky to a spaceship orbiting the earth in 2001. Like the composer of a great symphony, Kubrick also had the ability to draw his memorable moments into a lyrical whole. Balancing harmony with discord, he kept viewers on edge by constantly shifting relationships among the dramatic elements in his movies. The results often confounded expectations and provoked controversy, right up through Eyes Wide Shut, the last film of his life. This book is an intensive, scene-by-scene analysis of Kubrick's most mature work--seven meticulously wrought films, from Dr. Strangelove to Eyes Wide Shut. In these films, Kubrick dramatized the complexity and mutability of the human struggle, in settings so diverse that some critics have failed to see the common threads. Rasmussen traces those threads and reveals the always shifting, always memorable, always passionately rendered pattern. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author | : Phillip L. Gianos |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1998-01-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0313025347 |
Films have been a part of U.S. society for a century—a source of great enjoyment for the audience and of great profit to filmmakers. How does a mass entertainment medium deal with some of the great sources of dramatic real-life political and economic conflict—the Great Depression, the Cold War—in a way that attracts an audience without making it angry? How does an industry, which has from its beginnings been the subject of attacks from social, political and religious groups deal with political issues and conflicts? This book is an attempt to examine these questions; it is also an examination of some of the greatest and most interesting American films ever made—westerns, gangster films, comedies, war films, satires, and film biographies—to see what American films say about politics and politicians, and what these films, in turn, say about the audience for which they were produced.