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They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper.
ref. rja818518UKthick 8vo HBdw/djillustrated1st edn. Complete number line 1. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcrispcleanmattb/w Whitechapel map with small circular cut-outs of victims' murder sites to front and spine illustrated dw/dj with black lettering on front and white lettering on spine; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents brighttightcleansolid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners appears unread apart from my collation.Publisher's brightcrisp cleansharp-corneredoriginal plain red cloth boards with partial wrap-around monochrome portrait of Michael Maybrick 1844-1913 illustrated upper board and continuing around the foot of spine and lowerrear edgeno lettering to spine/ backstripa blackred striped headtailband and immaculate plain black endpapers.UKthick 8vo HBdw/djillustrated1st ednxi-xiiipp1-850pp paginated includes author's Note19 chaptersprofusely illustrated with contemporary facsimile b/w illustration reproductionsand b/w photographs etc. throughout the text and the bookAppendices III AcknowledgementsSourcesPicture Creditsan Index; plus unpaginated half-titletitle pagesa dedicationa Contents list/tableand an epigram. A book like no other - the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of history's most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from the legendary writer and director of Withnail and I. For over a hundred years'the mystery of Jack the Ripper' has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horrorspawning an army of obsessive theoristsand endless volumes purporting finally to reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorised Victorian England. But what if there was never really any 'mystery' at all What if the Ripper was always hiding in plain sightdeliberately leaving a trail of clues to his identity for anyone who cared to lookwhile 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 writingthis is much more than a radical reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper legendand an enthralling hunt for the killer.A literary high-wire act reminiscent of Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompsonit is an expressionistic journey through the cesspools of late-Victorian societya phantasmagoria of highly placed villainshypocrites and institutionalised corruption. Polemicforensic investigationpanoramic 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 bookdemolishing the theories of generations of self-appointed experts - the so-called 'Ripperologists' - to make clearat lastwho really did it; and more importantlyhow he managed to get away with it for so long. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.ukbecause of the weight/value of this item for correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please notestocks' actual shipping/Pp costs are adjusted and any difference is refundedafter order's receipt and before the order's despatchespecially if the items are offered either Pp included/FREE. N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can nowin some casescost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. LONDON.FOURTH ESTATE,2015. hardcover
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