The House That Jack Built: Florence Maybrick & Jack the Ripper

The House That Jack Built: Florence Maybrick & Jack the Ripper
Author: Kieran James
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2017-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0244346380

The criminal trial of Mrs Florence Maybrick, held in Liverpool, England during the height of the British Empire 1889, is widely regarded as one of the greatest travesties of justice in British legal history. Mrs Maybrick was tried for murdering her husband via arsenic poisoning. However, the trial became a morality trial when the learned judge, Mr Justice James Fitzjames Stephen, linked Mrs Maybrick's demonstrated adultery to her alleged desire to physically remove her husband by administering poison. The jury, which pronounced a guilty verdict, consisted of twelve untrained and unschooled men who were unable to grasp the technical evidence and were probably unduly influenced by the judge's summing-up and by the professional status of one of the medical witnesses for the prosecution. The case is a timely reminder today for an international audience of the fallibility and inherent weaknesses of the legal system and the desperate need to retain Courts of Criminal Appeal within the courts system.

They All Love Jack

They All Love Jack
Author: Bruce Robinson
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 1037
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0062296396

For over a hundred years, the mystery of Jack the Ripper has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of obsessive theorists and endless volumes purporting to finally reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorized Victorian England. But what if there was never really any mystery at all? What if the Ripper was always hiding in plain sight, deliberately leaving a trail of clues to his identity for anyone who cared to look, while cynically mocking those who were supposedly attempting to bring him to justice? In They All Love Jack, the award-winning film director and screenwriter Bruce Robinson exposes the cover-up that enabled one of history's most notorious serial killers to remain at large. More than twelve years in the writing, this is no mere radical reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper legend and an enthralling hunt for the killer. A literary high-wire act reminiscent of Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompson, it is an expressionistic journey through the cesspools of late-Victorian society, a phantasmagoria of highly placed villains, hypocrites, and institutionalized corruption. Polemic forensic investigation and panoramic portrait of an age, underpinned by deep scholarship and delivered in Robinson's inimitably vivid and scabrous prose, They All Love Jack is an absolutely riveting and unique book, demolishing the theories of generations of self-appointed experts—the so-called Ripperologists—to make clear, at last, who really did it; and, more important, how he managed to get away with it for so long.

The Diary of Jack the Ripper

The Diary of Jack the Ripper
Author: Shirley Harrison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1998
Genre: Murderers
ISBN: 9781857823608

This text is a bloodcurdling confession of an horrific killer that unfolds a terrible Victorian tale of jealousy, depravity and love.

Ripperology

Ripperology
Author: Robin Odell
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2006
Genre: Serial murders
ISBN: 9780873388610

The Diary of Jack the Ripper - The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick

The Diary of Jack the Ripper - The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick
Author: Shirley Harrison
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1782191550

The pages of The Diary of Jack the Ripper reveal the unimaginable - that over a century ago, the legendary serial killer at work in London's Whitechapel kept a record of his bestial mutilations of women. The writer of the horrific journal is James Maybrick, a depraved drug-taking, womanising, 49-year-old Liverpool cotton merchant with a history of domestic violence. In this analysis of his diary, investigative author Shirley Harrison explains all about the origins of the text, the rigorous scientific analysis it has endured and reveals startling new information about Maybrick's shadowy background. All this combines with a chilling confession scratched into a watch, 'I am Jack. J Maybrick,' provide powerful justification that Maybrick was Jack the Ripper. The diary itself is reproduced in full, so that you too can judge whether these are the deeply distributing words of Jack the Ripper himself, reaching out from across the abyss of more than a century.

The Diary of Jack the Ripper

The Diary of Jack the Ripper
Author: Shirley Harrison
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Serial murderers
ISBN: 9781844549177

In this analysis of his diary, investigative Shirley Harrison explains all about the origins of the text, the rigorous scientific analysis it has endured and reveals startling new information about Maybrick's shadowy background.

Sherlock Holmes and the Hunt for Jack the Ripper

Sherlock Holmes and the Hunt for Jack the Ripper
Author: Gerard Kelly
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2014-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780925646

Many people have asked why the paths of Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper never crossed, since the two men were contemporaries in London in 1888? There have even been some scurrilous suggestions that Holmes was himself the Ripper. The paths of the two men did indeed cross. Holmes and Watson knew precisely who the real Ripper was and even where he lived. They also knew exactly what happened to him. If you have the stomach for it read on and all will be revealed!

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper
Author: Shirley Harrison
Publisher: Blake Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Jack the Ripper Murders, London, England, 1888
ISBN: 9781857825909

When the gruesome diaries of James Maybrick were unearthednbsp;10 years ago, the last piece of a century-old puzzle was in place. The discovery offered the strongest evidence yet as to the true identity of Jack the Ripper. It suggests that Maybrick, a Liverpool merchant who, furious with his American wife’s infidelity, went periodically to London to butcher prostitutes who walked the streets close to where he had first seen his wife with her lover. Now, Shirley Harrison presents startling new evidence that Maybrick was also in Austin, Texas at the time of a horrific killing spree—eight murders, all likened to those of the Ripper. Reproducing James Maybrick’s chilling diaries in full,Jack the Ripper: The American Connectionreveals a shocking twist in the tale.

A Poisoned Life

A Poisoned Life
Author: Richard Jay Hutto
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1476670633

Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England--for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did not commit. Her 1889 trial was presided over by an openly misogynist judge who was later declared incompetent and died in an asylum. Hours before Maybrick was to be hanged, Queen Victoria reluctantly commuted her sentence to life in prison--in her opinion a woman who would commit adultery, as Maybrick had admitted, would also kill her husband. Her children were taken from her; she never saw them again. Her mother worked for years to clear her name, enlisting the president of the United States and successive ambassadors, including Robert Todd Lincoln. Decades later, a gruesome diary was discovered that made Maybrick's husband a prime Jack the Ripper suspect.