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OVER 200 JACK THE RIPPER AND ASSOCIATED TITLES ON LAYBOOKS.COM INCLUDING: Introducing Make Me An Offer... Books included in this section include: AN EYE TO THE FUTURE.THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS - Cory (Patricia), HVEM VAR JACK THE RIPPER? EN DANSK FORHORSDOMMERS UNDERSOGELSE. (WHO WAS JACK THE RIPPER? A DANISH JUDGE’S INVESTIGATION) - Muusmann (Carl), IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE JACK THE RIPPER MURDERS USING MODERN POLICE TECHNIQUES - Plimmer (John F.) and JACK THE MYTH: A NEW LOOK AT THE RIPPER - Wolf (A.P.) Visit the website to see the full list! I’m taking orders for signed copies of: PRISONER 4374 by A.J. Griffiths-Jones Signed p/back £9 and JACK THE RIPPER - CASE SOLVED 1891 by J.J. Hainsworth Signed label price tba BELL (NEIL R.A.) / WOOD (ADAM) - Sir Howard Vincent’s Police Code 1889. Facsimile Edn. New h/b Signed £20 CLACK (ROBERT) / HUTCHINSON (PHILIP) - The London of Jack the Ripper Then and Now. Revised & Updated hb/dw Signed Clack/ Hutchinson + Stewart Evans £35 CONNELL (NICHOLAS) / EVANS (STEWART) - The Man Who Hunted Jack the Ripper. hb/dw Signed Connell/Evans + Whittington-Egan As New £35 CULLEN (TOM) - Autumn of Terror Jack the Ripper: His Times and Crimes. reprint hb/dw £25 DIMOLIANAS (SPIRO) - Jack the Ripper and Black Magic. New s/c Signed £33 DEW (WALTER) - I Caught Crippen. h/b Various copies ranging in price from £300 - £450 or Offers McCORMICK (DONALD) - The Identity of Jack the Ripper. hb/dw Signed £50 McLAUGHLIN (ROBERT) - The First Jack the Ripper Victim Photographs. Ltd. Edn. Numbered (73) Signed Robert + Whittington-Egan label As New s/c £225 MATTERS (LEONARD) - The Mystery of Jack the Ripper. 1948 Reprint h/b £45 MAYBRICK (FLORENCE ELIZABETH) - Mrs. Maybrick’s Own Story. h/b £90 MORLEY (CHRISTOPHER J.) - Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide. E-Book As New s/c £25 PULLING (CHRISTOPHER) - Mr Punch and the Police. hb/dw Signed £40 RIPPEROLOGIST/RIPPER NOTES/RIPPERANA - back issues of all available ROBINSON (BRUCE) - They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper. New hb/ dw Signed £25 SHELDEN (NEAL) - Annie Chapman Jack the Ripper Victim, A Short Biography. s/c Rare £40 SHELDEN (NEAL) - Jack the Ripper and His Victims. s/c Rare £40 SIMS (GEORGE R.) - The Mysteries of Modern London. h/b Good only Scarce £125 STRACHAN (ROSS) - Jack the Ripper : A Collectors Guide To The Many Books. Published Rare 1st Edn. s/c Signed As New £30 WHITTINGTON-EGAN (RICHARD) - A Casebook on Jack the Ripper. h/b Signed. Various copies priced from £150 to £250 or offers WOODHALL (EDWIN T.) - Jack the Ripper Or When London Walked in Terror. Ltd. Numbered Facsimile Edn. New s/c £20 YOST (DAVE) - Elizabeth Stride and Jack the Ripper. Signed s/c As New £30 Ripperologist 147 December 2015 68
Ripper Fiction with DAVID GREEN There was Mary. She didn’t look like much of a person at all, the way she was carved up. It was so awful, if I did any kind of job telling you about it here, you might get so revolted you’d quit reading my book. Besides, I’d feel guilty for putting such pictures into your head. My aim is to inform you and entertain you with the tale of my adventures... * * * * * The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories Maxim Jakubowski (ed.) Robinson (2015) ISBN-978-1-4721-3584-1 Paperback 562pp £9.99 from Savage by Richard Laymon (1993) Editor Maxim Jakubowski has assembled a wonderful collection of 40 all new stories about Jack the Ripper. Mostly they are tales of mystery, suspense, science fiction or horror, often with a counterfactual twist thrown in for good measure. The East End territory will be largely familiar, but just around the corner you’ll find yourself in strange, dark places - a bordello stocked with the living dead, a hi-tech office suite equipped with Jack the Ripper simulators, and a twenty-first century hotel where a Jack the Ripper conference quickly degenerates into bloody massacre… You’ll know many of the characters who skulk in the rookeries and gas-lit courtyards, but from time to time you’ll also come across other folk - psychic detectives and kitchen offal workers, seafaring lunatics and cross-dressing Metropolitan police officers in padded bustles and chignon wigs. And of course, you’ll bump into Jack the Ripper in a multitude of shapes and forms. At the crudest level, this is an anthology of serial killer stories. But Jakubowski’s selections are broad and wide-ranging, keen to explore the myriad ways in which victims and assailants interact and respond to violence. This diversity is welcome, and it serves to demonstrate how far Ripper fiction has matured from the stalk-and-slash yarns of old. Naturally, the stories vary in style and quality, and readers will need to find for themselves the entries that work best for them. Perhaps a couple of the stories have been too arduously crafted, while others seem to me to offer little beyond a ‘shock’ revelation about the Ripper’s identity. Overwhelmingly, though, this is a very strong collection. What distinguishes the best stories is a willingness to take risks coupled with a clear commitment to the Ripper theme in its purest form. Standouts include Adrian Ludens’s supernatural horror tale ‘The Monster’s Leather Apron’, which follows Jack the Ripper out into the Yukon goldfields for a savage encounter with an Innuit monstrosity. Equally successful is Sally Spedding’s creepy and menacing look at Aaron Kosminski’s troubled schooldays in Congress Poland. Catherine Lundoff contributes a tense domestic drama about patriarchal violence, focusing on the Ripper’s terrorizing influence over the cowed female members of his household. In ‘A Small Band of Dedicated Men’ Andrew Lane shows what happens when a group of men unfairly accused of being the Ripper - Ostrog, Tumblety, Seweryn Kłosowski, Francis Thompson, etc – join forces to hunt down the real killer: it’s a fantastic story with absolutely the best nasty twist in the book. Interestingly, there is tale called ‘They All Love Jack’ by Nick Sweet featuring Michael Maybrick as the Ripper. This anthology is crammed with intelligent and consistently entertaining fiction that will appeal to even the most jaded souls. It’s a fitting high point on which to end what has been an outstanding year for Ripper fiction. Ripperologist 147 December 2015 69
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