Originally posted by PaulB
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First of all, wild horses won't get me to buy this book... IF I get sent it as a freebie from someone, I MIGHT read it then. But not one penny of my money walks into Edwards' or his publisher's pockets.
Now.. to address the comment.
So the "personal interest" because of "his home town (note Liverpool) " and because "Deeming stayed there" as professed in the talk with Napper... all goes out of the window pdq once a little chat with the curator of the Crime Museum tells him that AK was Jack the Ripper... (note... not that the Crime museum has been pushing this suspect ad nauseum for many many years to all and sundry...)
Easily influenced? Sudden lack of personal interest? Or.... a chance to make something out of it if he switches from Deeming to Kosminski? (I know... cynical person that I am... the possibility of the third has crossed many people's minds here as well...not just me... the man's behaviour, his little shop of horrors that sells the cheapest and most disrespectful form of junk imanginable and the way he changes his goalposts every so often and avoids being tied down to kjnowledgable questions...says it all)
To many...this fellow is clearly stringing everybody along. His publisher must be well happy.
He is in desperate need though of a decent PR man who should have told him to say as little as possible and NOT to keep changing the story... which he has. Listen to his radio and tv interviews. It'd like watching Tommy Cooper all over again... "Glass-bottle---bottle glass..." becomes "Shawl-skirt, skirt Shawl... Kosminski's, Eddowes', Eddowes', Kosminski's."
Tommy Cooper was at least convincing. This isn't even in the least bit funny.
But this shawl business is a joke and like Stewart Evans has repeatedly said... always has been seen as a fake. For people like Neil (a fine example I will use) and many others it is an affront to seriously researched Ripperology.
However I fully expect this Edwards fellow will find support from within the same publisher's authors lists. That would not surprise me one iota.
I wonder why exactly?
Phil
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