New Book - The Ripper Code

[Uncle Jack]

Wasn't Frank Miles locked in an asylum when the murders took place? This would rule him out immediety and save us reading Toughill's book! Lol

Adam

[Mike Covell]

As has been mentioned elsewhere on these boards, Ripper authors would be wise to follow the example set by writers such as Chris Scott in his Will the Real Mary Kelly…?, and by Robert McLaughlin in The First JtR Victim Photographs. They establish that every book on the subject doesn’t have to recapitulate the entire history of all the murders. It is perfectly acceptable for an author to assume that readers know the background, and to launch immediately into the new theory.

12 Chapters of fluff, with the 13th chapter deovted to their suspect! I read one recently like that, and by the time I got to the named suspect, I thought, "Who cares!"

[Suzi]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm One off the Christmas list there I reckon!! Frank Miles was (I think...must check!) under lock and key at the time and anything that ruins the sheer joy of Dorian Grey must be snubbed I say-unless he's right...that was Jack was sitting next to St Peter/Jesus/James etc etc in 'That Painting' after all!!
Suzi xx

[Suzi]

Ref Frank Miles

And furthermore....

A new book more likely to be on the Christmas List is 'Frank Miles and Oscar Wilde-such white lillies' by Molly Whittington Egan ISBN 1904201091 Pub by Rivendale Press

Suzi xx

[Paddy Goose]

Suzi, you are gilding the lilly.

...every book on the subject doesn’t have to recapitulate the entire history of all the murders.

Because after awhile it's like listening to grown men recite the alphabet.

Paddy

[Suzi]

A disturbing image there Paddy-

[Paddy Goose]

...managed to purchase a WW2 Enigma machine on Ebay for $19.95 (plus shipping and handling), I've finally managed to crack the Ripper Code.

I'm laughing so hard I turned Blethchley Face

[DVV]

I'm surprized -relieved? - that the author isn't from northern France.

[Chakk]

I'm surprized -relieved? - that the author isn't from northern France.

Je ne comprend pas. I thought the French "Coders" like Pierre Plantard from, or are associated, with Central France (Vichy), the Swiss border or Southern France.

[DVV]

Hi Chakk,
don't think too much on that...
The fact is that some French authors have recently published very ridiculous books about the case.
In my mental geography, northern France begins just after Aix-en-Provence.

Amitiés,
David