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Over the past two years I’ve posted a number of articles on my website, none of which I had anticipated writing when I joined this forum. Most of them are hidden on the site so I thought it might be helpful to list them all in one post. So here they are:
1. The Suckered! Trilogy
Three articles (England Sends Her Spies, The Third Man and The Thomas Barton Affair) dealing with the issue of what Scotland Yard detectives were doing in North America during the latter part of 1888. The link here takes you to a gateway to all three articles:
2. The Suckered! Plus Quadrilogy
A point by point response to Wolf Vanderlinden’s reply to the Suckered! Trilogy and, in the process, a dismantling of the main conspiracy theories relating to Scotland Yard and the Parnell Commission Inquiry. The link here takes you to a gateway to all four articles:
3. They All Love Bruce
A critical look at Bruce Robinson’s book ‘They All Love Jack’:
4. Anderson and The World
An article about the links between Robert Anderson and Edmund Yates, editor of the World, which resulted in various pro-Anderson stories being published in the World:
5. Fred Jarvis and the Secret Cypher
An examination of a fascinating and hitherto unknown secret service cypher found in files at the National Archives :
6. Tumblety’s Bail Revisited
An important correction to my article about Tumblety’s Bail in Ripperologist 144:
It also links to various sub-articles including:
Bail for foreigners
7. Some Thoughts
A compilation of short articles including “The Escape of ‘Frank Townsend’”, “New JTR Suspect Identified!”, “The Curious Case of the Fake Pensioner”, “Not So Fixed Points”, “The Missing Hour, Found!”, and “Reading the Writing On the Wall”:
8. Reconstructing Jack
A critical look at Simon Wood’s book, ‘Deconstructing Jack’ and his thesis that Jack the Ripper did not exist:
9. The Mysterious Dr Gabe
Why was Dr Gabe present at Miller’s Court on 9 November 1888? This article considers the question:
Accompanied by 'The Gynaecologist Society':
10. The English Detective
Was a squad of police officers really deployed to hunt for Francis Tumblety at police stations in November 1888? And did a Scotland Yard detective really follow Tumblety to New York in December? These questions are answered in this article which takes a critical look at Mike Hawley’s book, ‘The Ripper’s Haunts’:
11. The Untold History of the Special Branch
This article attempts to untangle difficult questions about the early years of the Special Branch:
See also accompanying article ‘The Non-Clerical Clerical Branch” http://www.orsam.co.uk/theclericalbranch.htm
12. A Bridge Too Far: The Curious Case of Mortemer Slade
Was the fictional character of Mortemer Slade in Guy Logan’s 1905 story ‘The True Case of Jack the Ripper’ really based on Montague Druitt? This article takes a critical look at issues arising out of J.J. Hainsworth’s book ‘Jack the Ripper: Case Solved, 1891’ (N.B. the author has since indicated on this forum that he will be making some corrections to the next edition of his book following publication of this article):
13. The History that Never Is
A critical look at the knowledge of Scotland Yard’s methods shown by Alex Butterworth in his book, ‘The History that Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents’:
14. The Knock Up
A gathering together of evidence relating to police practice of knocking up/calling up:
With sub article about calling up in respect of fires, ‘Calling Fire’:
1. The Suckered! Trilogy
Three articles (England Sends Her Spies, The Third Man and The Thomas Barton Affair) dealing with the issue of what Scotland Yard detectives were doing in North America during the latter part of 1888. The link here takes you to a gateway to all three articles:
2. The Suckered! Plus Quadrilogy
A point by point response to Wolf Vanderlinden’s reply to the Suckered! Trilogy and, in the process, a dismantling of the main conspiracy theories relating to Scotland Yard and the Parnell Commission Inquiry. The link here takes you to a gateway to all four articles:
3. They All Love Bruce
A critical look at Bruce Robinson’s book ‘They All Love Jack’:
4. Anderson and The World
An article about the links between Robert Anderson and Edmund Yates, editor of the World, which resulted in various pro-Anderson stories being published in the World:
5. Fred Jarvis and the Secret Cypher
An examination of a fascinating and hitherto unknown secret service cypher found in files at the National Archives :
6. Tumblety’s Bail Revisited
An important correction to my article about Tumblety’s Bail in Ripperologist 144:
It also links to various sub-articles including:
Bail for foreigners
7. Some Thoughts
A compilation of short articles including “The Escape of ‘Frank Townsend’”, “New JTR Suspect Identified!”, “The Curious Case of the Fake Pensioner”, “Not So Fixed Points”, “The Missing Hour, Found!”, and “Reading the Writing On the Wall”:
8. Reconstructing Jack
A critical look at Simon Wood’s book, ‘Deconstructing Jack’ and his thesis that Jack the Ripper did not exist:
9. The Mysterious Dr Gabe
Why was Dr Gabe present at Miller’s Court on 9 November 1888? This article considers the question:
Accompanied by 'The Gynaecologist Society':
10. The English Detective
Was a squad of police officers really deployed to hunt for Francis Tumblety at police stations in November 1888? And did a Scotland Yard detective really follow Tumblety to New York in December? These questions are answered in this article which takes a critical look at Mike Hawley’s book, ‘The Ripper’s Haunts’:
11. The Untold History of the Special Branch
This article attempts to untangle difficult questions about the early years of the Special Branch:
See also accompanying article ‘The Non-Clerical Clerical Branch” http://www.orsam.co.uk/theclericalbranch.htm
12. A Bridge Too Far: The Curious Case of Mortemer Slade
Was the fictional character of Mortemer Slade in Guy Logan’s 1905 story ‘The True Case of Jack the Ripper’ really based on Montague Druitt? This article takes a critical look at issues arising out of J.J. Hainsworth’s book ‘Jack the Ripper: Case Solved, 1891’ (N.B. the author has since indicated on this forum that he will be making some corrections to the next edition of his book following publication of this article):
13. The History that Never Is
A critical look at the knowledge of Scotland Yard’s methods shown by Alex Butterworth in his book, ‘The History that Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents’:
14. The Knock Up
A gathering together of evidence relating to police practice of knocking up/calling up:
With sub article about calling up in respect of fires, ‘Calling Fire’:
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