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American Gothicby Robert BlochISBN 0812515722 (0-8125-1572-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The American Murders Of Jack The Ripper: Tantalizing Evidence Of The Gruesome American Interlude Of The Prime Ripper Suspectby R. Michael GordonISBN 1592286755 (1-59228-675-5)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Anno-Draculaby Kim NewmanISBN 0881849677 (0-88184-967-7)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anno-Dracula'Book summary:As Nina Auerbach writes in the New York Times, " Stephen King assumes we hate vampires; Anne Rice makes it safe to love them, because they hate themselves. Kim Newman suspects that most of us live with them . . . . Anno Dracula is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead." In this first of what looks to be an excellent series, Victorian England has vampires at every level of society, especially the higher ones, and they engage in incessant intrigue, power games, and casual oppression of the weak--activities, as we know, that are all too human. Numerous characters from literature and from history appear in both major and cameo roles. Spectacular fight scenes, stormy politics, and a serial vampire killer keep the action lively. A scholarly bibliography is included. [via]
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Batmanby Brian Augustyn, P. Craig Russell, Michael Mignola, John Workman, David HornungISBN 1401211534 (1-4012-1153-4)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Batman'Book summary:Presenting a new edition of the title collecting the adventures of the Victorian era Batman. This volume includes the breakthrough Elseworlds epics GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT and MASTER OF THE FUTURE, which pit the Dark Knight against Jack the Ripper and a death-dealer from the skies over Gotham. This title features artwork by Mike Mignola (HELLBOY) and P. Craig Russell (THE SANDMAN). [via]
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Beneath a Blood Red Moonby Shannon DrakeISBN 0821762982 (0-8217-6298-2)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Broken: Library Editionby Kelley ArmstrongISBN 0553588184 (0-553-58818-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Broken: Library Edition'Book summary:In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on twenty-first-centuryand become his next target.
Ever since she discovered shes pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, shes never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one whos given birth. But thankfully, her expertise is needed to retrieve a stolen letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper. As a distraction, the job seems simple enoughonly the letter contains a portal to Victorian Londons underworld, which Elena inadvertently triggersunleashing a vicious killer and a pair of zombie thugs.
Now Elena must find a way to seal the portal before the unwelcome visitors get what theyre looking forwhich, for some unknown reason, is Elena. [via]More editions of Broken: Library Edition:
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Castle Rougeby Carole Nelson DouglasISBN 0765345714 (0-7653-4571-4)
Softcover, Forge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Castle Rouge'Book summary:Blend Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes with Dracula lore, toss in a copious complement of czarist Russian history, and the result is Carole Nelson Douglas's Castle Rouge, her grisly but gripping sequel to 2001's Chapel Noir.
Disaster has struck opera diva-turned-detective Irene Adler Norton. The American adventuress who bested Holmes and thereby won his admiration (in "A Scandal in Bohemia") thought she'd cornered the elusive Ripper on the grounds of the 1889 world's fair in Paris, but instead, he fled to Eastern Europe after kidnapping her friend and biographer, Penelope "Nell" Huxleigh. Now, while Irene--assisted by theatrical manager Bram Stoker, daredevil Yankee reporter Nellie "Pink" Bly, and British spy Quentin Stanhope--sets out for Prague, hoping to rescue Nell, and as Holmes and Dr. John Watson revisit Saucy Jack's earlier homicidal activities in London, Nell finds herself imprisoned, together with Irene's barrister husband, in a crumbling Transylvanian castle, under the malevolent scrutiny of a Russian woman agent and a brutish lust-murderer endowed with hypnotic powers.
Douglas builds considerable intrigue on her way to a surprising solution to the Ripper's identity. Yet it's unfortunate that this sixth Irene Adler yarn focuses more on the prudish Nell and her discomforts as a hostage (no proper corsets-- how shocking!) than on its more intrepid chief protagonist, or even on Pink, whose capacity for audacious exploits was better realized in Chapel Noir. Regrettable, too, is the plot's shift from Paris to the eldritch extremes of Bohemia. Stoker points out that "the region reeks with bizarre legend and folktales," yet Castle Rouge's action takes place well apart from the Gypsy villages that might have provided cultural color. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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Chapel Noirby Carole Nelson DouglasISBN 0765343479 (0-7653-4347-9)
Softcover, Forge
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The Complete History of Jack the Ripperby Philip SudgenISBN 0786709324 (0-7867-0932-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete History of Jack the Ripper'Book summary:Adding more new material for his Complete History of Jack the Ripper, crime writer and historian Philip Sugden already has painstakingly uncovered much new and hitherto neglected material, including a new Ripper sighting, a possible earlier assault, and a potential American connection. As noted Ripperologist Dan Farson observes, "This is indeed the definitive account'," for armchair sleuths of the White Chapel Horrors and all true crime aficionados. "A meticulous and reasoned profile for readers and future detectives."Kirkus Reviews "The charm of well written history about a character of almost mythical standing."Daily Telegraph (London)[via]More editions of The Complete History of Jack the Ripper:
- The Complete History of Jack the Ripper: ISBN 0786702761 (0-7867-0276-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub - The Complete History of Jack the Ripper: ISBN 0786701242 (0-7867-0124-2)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub - The Complete History of Jack the Ripper: ISBN 0786709324 (0-7867-0932-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
- The Complete History of Jack the Ripper: ISBN 0786702761 (0-7867-0276-1)
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The Complete Jack the Ripperby Donald RumbelowISBN 0491017227 (0-491-01722-7)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Jack the Ripper'Book summary:Discover the theories and facts surrounding the Whitechapel murders in David Rumbelowýs The Complete Jack the Ripper ý It is 1888 in Londonýs Whitechapel district, where one by one a group of prostitutes are brutally murdered. Opium smoking Inspector Fred Abberline is called upon to investigate these horrific murders and through his visions track down and trap Jack the Ripper. David Rumbelowýs casebook sets the crimes firmly in their historical setting, examines the evidence comprehensively and scrupulously, disposes of a number of theories and legends and relates the murder to popular literature and to later similar sex crimes. In addition he has had the advantage of access to some of Scotland Yard's most confidential papers. [via]
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Crimes, Detection and Death of Jack the Ripperby Martin FidoISBN 0297791362 (0-297-79136-2)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Curtains of Bloodby Robert J. RandisiISBN 0843950684 (0-8439-5068-4)
Softcover, Dorchester Publishing Company, Incorporated
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The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrickby Shirley HarrisonISBN 0671520997 (0-671-52099-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick'Book summary:"The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick" generated a storm of media attention when it was published in hardcover. Reviewers coast-to-coast debated whether these gruesome journal entries are the genuine work of the notorious serial killer who terrorized London or a remarkably clever hoax. This new edition of "The Diary of Jack the Ripper" provides fresh evidence, published for the first time in the U.S., to support its authenticity: tests of the ink and paper show they could date from the year of the murders; clues pointing to Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick were left at the crime scenes, including his wife's initials on the bedroom wall of his last victim; and new information proves Maybrick was familiar with the Whitechapel neighborhood where the murders took place and had lived there with his mistress. [via]
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The Diary of Jack the Ripper/the Discovery, the Investigation, the Debateby Shirley Harrison, JackISBN 1562827049 (1-56282-704-9)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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From Hellby Alan MooreISBN 1880325071 (1-880325-07-1)
Softcover, Borderlands Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Hell'Book summary:The mad, shaggy genius of the comics world dips deeply into the well of history and pulls up a cup filled with blood in From Hell. Alan Moore did a couple of Ph.D.'s worth of research into the Whitechapel murders for this copiously annotated collection of the independently published series. The web of facts, opinion, hearsay, and imaginative invention draws the reader in from the first page. Eddie Campbell's scratchy ink drawings evoke a dark and dirty Victorian London and help to humanize characters that have been caricatured into obscurity for decades. Moore, having decided that the evidence best fits the theory of a Masonic conspiracy to cover up a scandal involving Victoria's grandson, goes to work telling the story with relish from the point of view of the victims, the chief inspector, and the killer--the Queen's physician. His characterization is just as vibrant as Campbell's; even the minor characters feel fully real. Looking more deeply than most, the author finds in the "great work" of the Ripper a ritual magic working intended to give birth to the 20th century in all its horrid glory. Maps, characters, and settings are all as accurate as possible, and while the reader might not ultimately agree with Moore and Campbell's thesis, From Hell is still a great work of literature. --Rob Lightner [via]
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- From Hell: ISBN 0878162526 (0-87816-252-6)
Softcover, Kitchen Sink Pr - From Hell: ISBN 0878162704 (0-87816-270-4)
Softcover, Kitchen Sink Pr - From Hell: ISBN 0878162860 (0-87816-286-0)
Softcover, Kitchen Sink Pr - From Hell: ISBN 0878162879 (0-87816-287-9)
Softcover, Kitchen Sink Pr - From Hell: ISBN 087816300X (0-87816-300-X)
Softcover, Kitchen Sink Pr - From Hell: ISBN 0878163387 (0-87816-338-7)
Softcover, Kitchen Sink Pr - From Hell: ISBN 0958578346 (0-9585783-4-6)
Softcover, Top Shelf Productions - From Hell: ISBN 0878163085 (0-87816-308-5)
Softcover, Top Shelf Productions - From Hell: ISBN 0878163603 (0-87816-360-3)
Softcover, Mad Love Pub in association with Kitchen Sink Press, Inc. - From Hell: ISBN 0878164189 (0-87816-418-9)
Softcover, Mad Love Pub in association with Kitchen Sink Press, Inc. - From Hell: ISBN 0878164383 (0-87816-438-3)
Softcover, Mad Love Pub in association with Kitchen Sink Press, Inc. - From Hell: ISBN 1880325071 (1-880325-07-1)
Softcover, Borderlands Pr
- From Hell: ISBN 0878162526 (0-87816-252-6)
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Gotham by Gaslightby Brian AugustynISBN 0930289676 (0-930289-67-6)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gotham by Gaslight'Book summary:In this Batman adventure, an ancestor of the contemporary Bruce Wayne - sharing both Bruce's name and his Batman alter-ego - confronts the notorious Jack the Ripper in Victorian Gotham City. [via]
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Hoaxes!: Dupes, Dodges & Other Dastardly Deceptionsby Gordon SteinISBN 0787604801 (0-7876-0480-1)
Softcover, Visible Ink Pr
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Jack Knifeby Virginia BakerISBN 0515142522 (0-515-14252-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack Knife'Book summary:Whitechapel, London, 1888.
For Inspector Jonas Robb, each night brings new terror. But this night is different. It's brought two strangers-David and Sara-who have arrived in London seemingly with no past. What they do have is incredible knowledge about the Whitechapel fiend known as Jack the Ripper. Because David and Sara do have a past. It just happens to be in the future.
Sent back in time, they're in pursuit of a 21st-century madman whose purpose is to change history. As the body count rises, Sara and David realize that their quarry and Robb's have become linked in a way that threatens not only Victorian London, but the very fabric of time. [via]More editions of Jack Knife:
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Jack the Ripper: First American Serial Killerby Paul Gainey, Stewart P. EvansISBN 1568362579 (1-56836-257-9)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack the Ripper: First American Serial Killer'Book summary:Does the bloody trail of Jack the Ripper finally lead to America?
This headline-making book offers convincing proof that the serial killer who terrorized London in 1888 was, in fact, an American. Spurred by the startling discovery of a letter written by a Scotland Yard inspector, two veteran police investigators have traced the shadowy movements of a self-styled "doctor" from St. Louis who had a criminal record spanning both sides of the Atlantic. Two decades after the Ripper's murderous spree, Inspector John George Littlechild, then retired, laments in his fateful letter: "to my mind a very likely [suspect] . . . was an American quack named Francis Tumblety. . . his feelings toward women were remarkable and bitter in the extreme." Littlechild expresses dismay that Tumblety, who was in custody only briefly, was ever granted bail, enabling him to flee London-just as the murders ended. The Littlechild letter, printed in this book, provides crucial details either overlooked by police officials at the time of the investigation or later suppressed because they would reveal the same officials had allowed their prime suspect to slip through their fingers.
Sifting through the entire historical record and their own surprising discoveries, Stewart Evans and Paul Gainey have created a true-life detective story that will fascinate all readers of Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens. Vividly evoking the mean streets of Victorian London and the wave of terror that swept the city with the Ripper's grisly crimes, they convincingly paint a portrait of history's most infamous serial killer. [via]More editions of Jack the Ripper: First American Serial Killer:
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Jack the Ripperby Daniel FarsonISBN 0718110501 (0-7181-1050-1)
Hardcover, Joseph
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Jack the Ripperby Richard WallaceISBN 0962719560 (0-9627195-6-0)
Softcover, Gemini Pr
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Jack the Ripperby Rick GearyISBN 1561633089 (1-56163-308-9)
Softcover, Nbm Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack the Ripper'Book summary:[via]Gearys inimitable tongue-in-cheek take on last century's most infamous serial killer.More editions of Jack the Ripper:
Jack the Ripper: 100 Years of Investigationby Terence SharkeyISBN 0706365968 (0-7063-6596-8)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Jack the Ripper A to Zby Paul Begg, Keith Skinner, Martin FidoISBN 0747244456 (0-7472-4445-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack the Ripper A to Z'Book summary:An examination of the mystery of Jack the Ripper. It is in encyclopaedic format and describes all the theories - including the suspect Joseph Barnett, the story of the "Ripper diaries" and the theory of "The Lodger". It also details the policemen, politicians and bystanders caught up in the case. [via]
Jack the Ripper: An Encyclopediaby John J. EddlestonISBN 1576074145 (1-57607-414-5)
Hardcover, Abc-Clio Inc
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Jack the Ripper: And the Whitechapel Murdersby Keith Skinner, Stewart EvansISBN 1903365392 (1-903365-39-2)
Hardcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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Jack The Ripper: Letters From Hellby Keith Skinner, Stewart P. EvansISBN 075093770X (0-7509-3770-X)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack The Ripper: Letters From Hell'Book summary:Between August and November 1888 six women were found murdered and mutilated in London's East End and Aldgate. All were prostitutes; one was found on a common landing, one in the street, one in a backyard, one in an entry, one in a public square and the sixth in a house. The murders provoked massive interest in the press and dozens of letters quickly appeared, claiming to have been written by the killer. The origin of the name Jack the Ripper itself was a letter, famously written to 'Dear Boss,' the head of the Central News Agency.[via]Certain letters have been reproduced or quoted in previous books but Stewart Evans and Keith Skinner are the first to have read and examined every one. This book reproduces and transcribes all the letters, including the 'Dear Boss' correspondence and the horrific letter sent to the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee together with a piece of human kidney. The authors relate the letters to the complete story of the Whitechapel murders, tracing the hysteria and misconceptions that dogged both the police and Fleet Street during 1888-9 and providing revealing insights into the Victorian psyche.
For the first time the cases of three people arrested by the police for sending 'Jack the Ripper' letters are explored, including that of Maria Coroner, the attractive 21-year-old Bradford girl. Evans and Skinner also examine the letters of seven suspects, including Dr. Roslyn D'Onston Stephenson and Nikaner Benelius. The story of the Ripper letters ends by posing a controversial question: was Jack the Ripper merely a press invention?
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The Jack the Ripper Suspects: Persons Cited by Investigators and Theoristsby Stan Russo, Christopher-Michael DigraziaISBN 0786417757 (0-7864-1775-7)
Hardcover, McFarland & Co Inc Pub
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Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebookby Donald RumbelowISBN 042511869X (0-425-11869-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook'Book summary:1988 BCE hardcover with dust jacket as shown. Tight spine, clear crisp pages, no writing, no tears, smokefree. Jacket has very light edgewear. [via]
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Jack the Ripper: The Final Chapterby Paul H. Feldman, Shirley HarrisonISBN 1852276770 (1-85227-677-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack the Ripper: The Final Chapter'Book summary:Since October 1992 the "Diary of Jack the Ripper", which purported to be written by James Maybrick, was believed to have been a hoax. However, not one person has attempted to explain how it was forged or by whom. This book claims that this is because the diary is genuine. Feldman suggests that James Maybrick was the notorious Whitechapel Murderer, and that the largest and most detailed investigation on the subject ever to be undertaken led the author through the smokescreen of an official cover-up, via the royals and the masons, to the true provenance of the diary, Jack the Ripper's watch, and, ultimately, his identity. As well as suggesting a solution to one of the most enduring mysteries in the history of crime, this is also the story of the man possibly at its centre, James Maybrick: how he died, how his wife was falsely imprisoned for his murder, and who the real murderer of Jack the Ripper was. This story also draws in two people who are still alive today - one illegitimately descended from James Maybrick, the other from his wife, Florence. [via]
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Jack the Ripper: The Final Solutionby Stephen KnightISBN 0897332091 (0-89733-209-1)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution'Book summary:Who really was Jack the Ripper? Was he a solitary assassin lurking in the shadows of gaslit London? Or was Jack the Ripper three men: two killers and an accomplice? In this work the author investigates all aspects of this strange case shrouded in mystery and misconception. The discovery of the murders is described by the men who were there, and evidence reveals that the hitherto unsolved Ripper murders were in fact a culmination of a full-scale cover-up organized at the highest level of government. [via]
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Jack the Ripper the Uncensored Factsby Paul BeggISBN 0860515834 (0-86051-583-4)
Softcover, Parkwest Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack the Ripper the Uncensored Facts'Book summary:Acclaimed by the critics as an "absolutely indispensable classic" on the Whitechapel murders of 1888, Jack the Ripper is a full, detailed reconstruction of those crimes and of the subsequent police investigation. [via]
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Jack the Ripper: The Uncensored Facts A Documented History of the Whitechapel Murders of 1888by Paul BeggISBN 0860515281 (0-86051-528-1)
Hardcover, Parkwest Pubns
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The Lodgerby Belloc LowndesISBN 141917049X (1-4191-7049-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lodger'Book summary:An elderly couple living in Victorian London struggle against despair as their small resources dwindle. When a mysterious gentleman answers their advertisement for a lodger, they celebrate. But as women begin dying at the hands of The Avenger, they start to suspect something too horrific for words. The Lodger was an immediate best-seller and became the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's first talking motion picture. [via]
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Lostby Gregory MaguireISBN 0060988649 (0-06-098864-9)
Softcover, Regan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost'Book summary:At the flat in Weatherall Walk there was no milk in the fridge, no ice in the tiny freezer unit.... The better furniture was hung over with drop cloths, the leather-bound books evacuated from their shelves.... Unconnected wiring threaded from walls, and a smell of lazy drains, something rotting, unfurled from the sewer all the way up to this flat. Winnie wrenched open a window. But no sign of John?
Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his apartment in the nineteenth-century rowhouse once owned by Winnie's great-great-grandfather. Is it the spirit of this ancestor, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin?
Winnie begins to investigate, but John's erstwhile girlfriend, Allegra, is aggressively unhelpful, and his downstairs neighbor, the cat-obsessed Mrs. Maddingly, is growing stranger by the day. Gripped by inspiration and desperation alike, Winnie finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades, some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past.
In the spirit of A. S. Byatt's Possession, with dark overtones echoing from A Christmas Carol, Lostpresents a rich fictional world that will enrapture Gregory Maguire's eager audience. [via]
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripperby Maxim Jakubowski, Nathan BraundISBN 185487537X (1-85487-537-X)
Hardcover, Robinson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper'Book summary:Enlisting in the hundred-year-old debate about the identity of the world's first serial killer, this Mammoth investigation introduces the facts of the famous case and presents some of the most convincing, if conflicting, theories of the murderer's identity.[via]More editions of The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper:
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Murder and Madnessby David AbrahamsenISBN 1556112793 (1-55611-279-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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A Night in the Lonesome Octoberby Roger Zelazny, Gahan WilsonISBN 0380972239 (0-380-97223-9)
Hardcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Night in the Lonesome October'Book summary:Snuff, a guard dog who performs thaumaturgical calculations, accompanies his master, Jack, on collecting expeditions into the Whitechapel slums of nineteenth-century London. 35,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Obsessionby Penelope NeriISBN 0843950811 (0-8439-5081-1)
Softcover, Dorchester Pub Co Inc
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closedby Patricia CornwellISBN 1587244101 (1-58724-410-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed'Book summary:[via]Now updated with new material that brings the killer's picture into clearer focus.
In the fall of 1888, all of London was held in the grip of unspeakable terror. An elusive madman calling himself Jack the Ripper was brutally butchering women in the slums of Londons East End. Police seemed powerless to stop the killer, who delighted in taunting them and whose crimes were clearly escalating in violence from victim to victim. And then the Rippers violent spree seemingly ended as abruptly as it had begun. He had struck out of nowhere and then vanished from the scene. Decades passed, then fifty years, then a hundred, and the Rippers bloody sexual crimes became anemic and impotent fodder for puzzles, mystery weekends, crime conventions, and so-called Ripper Walks that end with pints of ale in the pubs of Whitechapel. But to number-one New York Times bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell, the Ripper murders are not cute little mysteries to be transformed into parlor games or movies but rather a series of terrible crimes that no one should get away with, even after death. Now Cornwell applies her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise to dig deeper into the Ripper case than any detective before herand reveal the true identity of this fabled Victorian killer.
In Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed, Cornwell combines the rigorous discipline of twenty-first century police investigation with forensic techniques undreamed of during the late Victorian era to solve one of the most infamous and difficult serial murder cases in history. Drawing on unparalleled access to original Ripper evidence, documents, and records, as well as archival, academic, and law-enforcement resources, FBI profilers, and top forensic scientists, Cornwell reveals that Jack the Ripper was none other than a respected painter of his day, an artist now collected by some of the worlds finest museums: Walter Richard Sickert.
It has been said of Cornwell that no one depicts the human capability for evil better than she. Adding layer after layer of circumstantial evidence to the physical evidence discovered by modern forensic science and expert minds, Cornwell shows that Sickert, who died peacefully in his bed in 1942, at the age of 81, was not only one of Great Britains greatest painters but also a serial killer, a damaged diabolical man driven by megalomania and hate. She exposes Sickert as the author of the infamous Ripper letters that were written to the Metropolitan Police and the press. Her detailed analysis of his paintings shows that his art continually depicted his horrific mutilation of his victims, and her examination of this mans birth defects, the consequent genital surgical interventions, and their effects on his upbringing present a casebook example of how a psychopathic killer is created.
New information and startling revelations detailed in Portrait of a Killer include:
- How a year-long battery of more than 100 DNA testson samples drawn by Cornwells forensics team in September 2001 from original Ripper letters and Sickert documentsyielded the first shadows of the 75- to 114 year-old genetic evid...
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- Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed: ISBN 0425189651 (0-425-18965-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper-- Case Closed: ISBN 0425192733 (0-425-19273-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Portrait of a Killer : Jack the Ripper - Case Closed: ISBN 0399149325 (0-399-14932-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed: ISBN 1587244101 (1-58724-410-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
- Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed: ISBN 0425189651 (0-425-18965-1)
Prisoner 1167 the Madman Who Was Jack the Ripper: The Madman Who Was Jack the Ripperby James TullyISBN 0786705434 (0-7867-0543-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Ripper & the Royalsby M. Fairclough, Joseph SickertISBN 0715631810 (0-7156-3181-0)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc
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Ripper Notes: How the Newspapers Covered the Jack the Ripper Murdersby Stewart P. Evans, Dan Norder, Wolf VanderlindenISBN 0975912925 (0-9759129-2-5)
Softcover, Inklings Pr
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Sojournby Jana G. OliverISBN 1896944302 (1-896944-30-2)
Softcover, Dragon Moon Pr
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Strangers in Paradise 16: Molly & Pooby Terry MooreISBN 1892597322 (1-892597-32-2)
Softcover, Abstract Studio Inc
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A Study in Terrorby Ellery QueenISBN 0783894856 (0-7838-9485-6)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Tea Roseby Jennifer DonnellyISBN 0312993560 (0-312-99356-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tea Rose'Book summary:East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams.[via]
But Fiona's life is shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Fearing her own death, she is forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit propels her rise from a modest West Side shop-front to the top of Manhattan's tea trade. But Fiona's old ghosts do not rest quietly, and to silence them, she must venture back to the London of her childhood, where a deadly confrontation with her past becomes the key to her future. 
Time after Timeby Karl AlexanderISBN 044008900X (0-440-08900-X)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press
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A Treasury of Victorian Murder Vol. 2: Jack the Ripperby Rick GearyISBN 1561631248 (1-56163-124-8)
Hardcover, NBM Publishing Company
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The Trial of Jack the Ripper: The Case of William Bury, 1859-89by Euan MacPhersonISBN 1845960114 (1-84596-011-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The True Face of Jack the Ripperby Harris MelvinISBN 1854797263 (1-85479-726-3)
Softcover, Michael O'Mara Books
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The Ultimate Jack the Ripper: An Illustrated Encyclopediaby Stewart P. Evans, Keith SkinnerISBN 078670926X (0-7867-0926-X)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion: An Illustrated Encyclopediaby Keith Skinner, Stewart P. EvansISBN 0786707682 (0-7867-0768-2)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Whitechapel Horrorsby Edward B. HannaISBN 078670019X (0-7867-0019-X)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Will the Real Mary Kelly. . .?by C. ScottISBN 1905277059 (1-905277-05-9)
Softcover, Adlibbed Ltd
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The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripperby Paul WestISBN 0879514787 (0-87951-478-7)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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Retrato de un Asesino : Jack el Destripador Caso Cerradoby Patricia D. CornwellISBN 8466611029 (84-666-1102-9)
Hardcover, Ediciones B
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