New Ripper book.

[Magpie]

Looks like R. Michael Gordon has a new Ripper book due out at the end of the month:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786433272/ref=pe_5050_8420580_pe_snp_272

[Celesta]

Klosowski? Has to be.

[Mike Covell]

Its listed at £25.00 on the UK Amazon site.

[Dan Norder]

I'm not sure if it's a new book or one of his previous three books about Klosowski updated and retitled.

[Mike Covell]

I'm not sure if it's a new book or one of his previous three books about Klosowski updated and retitled.

That would make sense, especially when the cover price is so high. I have none of his books though, so might give this one a go.

[Magpie]

I'm not sure if it's a new book or one of his previous three books about Klosowski updated and retitled.

There's a frustrating lack of detail

If it's a reprint, I wish Amazon would say so.

[Bob Hinton]

Could it be?

Neil Cream? I think he poisoned his victims as well.

[Celesta]

You'd think they'd put a little abstract, wouldn't you?

[Mike Covell]

In Mike we Trust

Considered a primary suspect in the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders, Polish-born Severino Antoniovich Klosowski also gained considerable notoriety as "The Borough Poisoner of Southwark" in the late 1800s. Within a span of five years, Klosowski took on three women as his wives and lethally poisoned each woman with deadly doses of antimony.This work closely examines Klosowski's murders of Mary Spink, Elizabeth "Bessie" Taylor, and Maud Marsh, complete with extensive accounts of the individual crimes, the accompanying investigations, and Klosowski's conviction and execution. The final chapter examines intense police and media speculation that Klosowski may also have been the unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, citing period news articles and more recent developments in the notorious case. One appendix provides a detailed timeline of Klosowski's "poison period" from 1892 to 1903.

ISBN 0786433272 Publication date 01 Mar 2008
ISBN13 9780786433278
(What's this?) Library of Congress HV
Publisher McFarland & Company Volumes 1
Imprint MCFARLAND & CO INC Published in Jefferson, NC
Format Paperback Academic level G

http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/The_Poison_Murders_of_Jack_the_Ripper_His_Final_Crimes_Trial_and/9780786433278

[Wolf Vanderlinden]

The book is new and not a reprint of one of R. Michael's earlier books.

In the past he has looked at Klosowski/Chapman as Jack the Ripper (Alias Jack the Ripper, Beyond the Usual Whitechapel Suspects, McFarland, 2001); Klosowski/Chapman as the Torso Murderer (The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London, McFarland, 2002) and Klosowski/Chapman as the murderer of four women in the US between 1891 and 1892 (The American Murders of Jack the Ripper, Praeger, 2003).

This is the first work by Gordon which actually looks at the murders which it has been proven that Klosowski/Chapman DID commit. You knew it had to happen one of these days.

Wolf.

[Sam Flynn]

Neil Cream? I think he poisoned his victims as well.

Perhaps he's proposing a conspiracy of both poisoners? "Cream of Tartar", anyone?

[Sam Flynn]

This is the first work by Gordon which actually looks at the murders which it has been proven that Klosowski/Chapman DID commit. You knew it had to happen one of these days.

If only he'd called it "The Poison Murders of Severin Klosowski", or "The Borough Poisoner" I might have been tempted to buy it. We could do with a good, dispassionate account of Chapman's murders. As it is, whilst I can understand the marketing slant, the "Jack the Ripper" bit in the title puts me right off. Whilst he writes very well, I was none too impressed with the "foregone conclusion" approach taken by Gordon in his earlier effort, "Alias Jack the Ripper..."

I'll stick with HL Adam until something better comes along.

[Tom_Wescott]

I second the words of the amazing Sam Flynn. This is Gordon's fourth 'Ripper Book'. In 'Alias, JTR' he accuses Chapman of the Ripper killings; in 'The American Murders of JTR' he accuses him of killing all the whores in America; in 'The Torso Murders of Victorian London' he accuses Chapman of the Torso killings. The next question Gordon will be asking himself is 'Where was Chapman on the morning of November 22nd, 1963?'

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Magpie]

Thanks for the info.

I think I'll pass, unless I can find a remaindered copy.

[Celesta]

Sam, Tom, Wolf, et al,

He's running out of murders or combinations of murders?