The big book of Jack the Ripper

Book 2016

"A new anthology from Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler, centered around the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper. A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL. Of all the real-life serial killers whose gruesome deeds have splashed across headlines throughout human history, few have reached the near-mythical status of Jack the Ripper. Terrorizing the world with a rash of violent murders in London's East End...

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East End (London, England) Fiction

Jack, the Ripper Fiction

London (England) History 19th century Fiction

Serial murderers Fiction

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Historical fiction Short stories Thrillers (Fiction)

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Vintage crime/Black Lizard original

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ISBN:

9781101971130

Description:

xv, 848 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

The true story
Victims in the night / David Abrahamsen
The Jack the Ripper murders / Anonymous
Key texts / Witness statements, autopsy reports, The "Ripper letters"
London's ghastley mystery / Anonymous
The east end murders: detailed lessons / Anonymous
Blood money to Whitechapel / George Bernard Shaw
Who was Jack the Ripper? / Peter Underwood
Mystery solved! / Anonymous
"Frenchy"---Ameer Ben Ali / Edwin M. Borchard
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick / Stephen Hunter
Copy murders and others / Robin Odell
In the fourth ward / Theodora Benson
Jack / Anne Perry
Spring-fingered Jack / Susan Casper
The uncertain heiress / Isak Dinesen
Knucklebones / Tim Sullivan
A kind of madness / Anthony Boucher
The sparrow and the lark / Lindsay Faye
Guardian angel / Gwendolyn Frame
In the slaughteryard / Anonymous
The lodger (short story) / Marie Belloc Lowndes
The sins of the fathers / Scott Baker
Don't fear the ripper / Holly West
The mysterious card unveiled / Cleveland Moffett
Jack be quick / Barbara Paul
A matter of blood / Jeffery Deaver
A study in terror / Ellery Queen
G.I. Jack / Loren D. Estleman
The legacy / R.L. Stevens
Jack's little friend / Ramsey Campbell
The stripper / H. H. Holmes
The ripper experience / Danie Stashower
The treasure of Jack the Ripper / Edward D. Hoch
The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke
Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch
A toy for Juliette / Robert Bloch
The prowler in the city at edge of the world / Harlan Ellison
Gentleman of the shade / Harry Turtledove
the adventure of the Grinder's whistle / Howard Waldrop
Sagittarius / Ray Russell
The demon spell / Hume Nisbet
My shadow is the fog / Charles L. Grant
By Flower and Dean Street / Patrice Chaplin / The final Stone / William F. Nolan
the gatecrasher / R. Chetwynd-Hayes
A punishment to fit the crimes / Richard A. Gordon
From hell again / Gregory Frost
An awareness of angels / Karl Edward Wagner
A most unusual murder / Robert Bloch
Jack the Ripper in hell / Stephen Hunter

LCCN:

2016012024

Control Number:

1927321

Other Authors:

Penzler, Otto, editor, writer of introduction

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