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  • MrBarnett
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    • Nov 2013
    • 5672

    #181
    My copy has been dispatched and is due to arrive tomorrow.

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    • Fisherman
      Cadet
      • Feb 2008
      • 23676

      #182
      Originally posted by MrBarnett View Post
      My copy has been dispatched and is due to arrive tomorrow.
      Thatīs good news - glad to hear it!

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      • Juniper4576
        Constable
        • Jan 2021
        • 88

        #183
        Selling like hot cakes Christer, do you get updates on how many has been sold?

        I'm looking forward to when I get my chance to get a copy.

        Jim
        "Seek the absence of the normal, and find the presence of the abnormal"

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        • Fisherman
          Cadet
          • Feb 2008
          • 23676

          #184
          Originally posted by Juniper4576 View Post
          Selling like hot cakes Christer, do you get updates on how many has been sold?

          I'm looking forward to when I get my chance to get a copy.

          Jim
          I will get updated as we move along. I hope you can lay your hands on a copy in the near future!

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          • barnflatwyngarde
            Inspector
            • Sep 2014
            • 1141

            #185
            Originally posted by MrBarnett View Post
            My copy has been dispatched and is due to arrive tomorrow.
            Me too MrB.

            I'm really looking forward to reading it. On the basis of Christer's many detailed postings on the matter, I think that this is one book that will have to be read at least twice.

            Bang goes my weekend.

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            • Herlock Sholmes
              Commissioner
              • May 2017
              • 21894

              #186
              Mine’s due tomorrow too. I’m just disappointed that there isn’t a pop-up version.
              Regards

              Sir Herlock Sholmes.

              “A house of delusions is cheap to build but draughty to live in.”

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              • Fisherman
                Cadet
                • Feb 2008
                • 23676

                #187
                Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes View Post
                Mine’s due tomorrow too. I’m just disappointed that there isn’t a pop-up version.
                You’ ll need to settle for the boil-down version, I’ m afraid ...

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                • barnflatwyngarde
                  Inspector
                  • Sep 2014
                  • 1141

                  #188
                  Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes View Post
                  Mine’s due tomorrow too. I’m just disappointed that there isn’t a pop-up version.
                  I remember the time when you could buy children's books that were "scratch 'n sniff".

                  Now there's a thought!

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                  • Herlock Sholmes
                    Commissioner
                    • May 2017
                    • 21894

                    #189
                    Originally posted by barnflatwyngarde View Post

                    I remember the time when you could buy children's books that were "scratch 'n sniff".

                    Now there's a thought!


                    Regards

                    Sir Herlock Sholmes.

                    “A house of delusions is cheap to build but draughty to live in.”

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                    • MrBarnett
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                      • Nov 2013
                      • 5672

                      #190
                      My copy has arrived. It’s a nicely-produced book.

                      I had a quick flick through it and saw mention of fine-toothed saws...

                      I’ll read it at my leisure, probably over the weekend.





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                      • Fisherman
                        Cadet
                        • Feb 2008
                        • 23676

                        #191
                        Originally posted by MrBarnett View Post
                        My copy has arrived. It’s a nicely-produced book.

                        I had a quick flick through it and saw mention of fine-toothed saws...

                        I’ll read it at my leisure, probably over the weekend.
                        Me, Iīm going fishing for seatrout in the weekend.

                        Letīs hope we are both to be congratulated ...!

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                        • Herlock Sholmes
                          Commissioner
                          • May 2017
                          • 21894

                          #192
                          I just received mine too and I echo Gary’s post. A very nicely produced book.
                          Regards

                          Sir Herlock Sholmes.

                          “A house of delusions is cheap to build but draughty to live in.”

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                          • Herlock Sholmes
                            Commissioner
                            • May 2017
                            • 21894

                            #193
                            Well I just finished Cutting Point. The debate on the details will undoubtedly ensue so I’ll just say this. I’m not ‘convinced’ of Lechmere’s guilt (I’m certainly not convinced of anyone’s guilt) but I am now ‘convinced’ that he has to be taken seriously as a suspect; as the ripper and maybe the Torso Killer. I could be wrong. We can all be wrong. Lechmere might be our man though; who knows? Fish piles on the circumstantial evidence without any leaps of faith. It’s conspiracy and Freemason-free. Sadly most ripper books I buy these days I end up wishing that I’d spent the cash on something else but not in this case. Fish has presented the case for Lechmere and he’s done it well.

                            And he never once uses the phrase ‘Mizen Scam.’

                            Fish, I take my hat off to you. I’m glad that I bought your book.
                            Regards

                            Sir Herlock Sholmes.

                            “A house of delusions is cheap to build but draughty to live in.”

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                            • MrBarnett
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                              • Nov 2013
                              • 5672

                              #194
                              I’ve just finished it.

                              As Herlock says, the book is worth buying, even if it doesn’t convince you that Lechmere was the killer. On balance it hasn’t changed my view on that very much either way.

                              I was pleased to see the 1876 accident being given consideration. But I must say, I was expecting a little more amount Ma Lechmere and Tiger Bay. That aside, though, I wasn’t disappointed.

                              Congratulations to Christer on providing us with a complete and well-written record of the case against Lechmere as he sees it.
                              Last edited by MrBarnett; 02-21-2021, 02:51 PM.

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                              • Abby Normal
                                Commissioner
                                • Jun 2010
                                • 11910

                                #195
                                all right mine arrived. grabs popcorn
                                "Is all that we see or seem
                                but a dream within a dream?"

                                -Edgar Allan Poe


                                "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                                quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

                                -Frederick G. Abberline

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