The Bank Holiday Murders by Tom Wescott (2014)

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Everyone and thanks for the interest in the new book as well as the kind comments about BHM. I'm still working on the new one, but it's entirely written and in the proof reading/editing stage now, so we're in the final stretch. I've changed the title and it is now Ripper Confidential: New Research on the Whitechapel Murders. I apologize for it coming out so much later than was my original intention, but i'm glad for the extra time I've spent on it. Like The Bank Holiday Murders it will be unlike any other Ripper book before it. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is, of course, for the reader to decide.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Batman]

I have been gone for awhile from the boards but I did mean to read this book by Tom after discussions from other threads with him.

I really enjoyed the book. It is interesting. People should definitely get it.

Is there a forum on here where people have been discussing more about the book's content, suspects, connections etc?

There are quite a few questions I have in my mind after finishing it, but don't we all with anything

Thanks!

[Dane_F]

There is no mention of the book on Amazon, so I think it has probably been delayed.

Tom self publishes. I'm sure as soon as the book is ready he will just put it up. I expect the ebook to be available sooner than the printed copy.

That said, it might still have been delayed but I would not be shocked if we could get the ebook by the end of the year.

[dantheman]

Great, very excited to read it. Will it be available on the Nook?

[barnflatwyngarde]

There is no mention of the book on Amazon, so I think it has probably been delayed.

[Steadmund Brand]

I am also looking forward to this book....I couldn't praise The Bank Holiday Murders enough....one of the 3 best "Ripper" books in the past several years.. and I'm sure you wont disappoint us with your latest effort!!

Steadmund Brand

[Dane_F]

As we approach December, I am anxiously awaiting to hear the news that the book will be coming out. *fingers crossed*

[MrBarnett]

Hi Dane, thanks so much for saying that. I got most of the work done on my next book some months ago and then kind of burnt out and stepped away from it, but I'm back to work now and hoping to have it out by Christmas. The book is titled Whitechapel Confidential and might be subtitled 'Select Essays on Jack the Ripper', although now I'm toying with a more provocative subtitle, since I'm not sure the word 'essay' is very attractive. But I'll probably stick with that. Loads of crazy new stuff, predominantly surrounding the Buck's Row and Berner Street murders.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

That's one for my Christmas list

[Tom_Wescott]

I don't suppose Tom could give us an update on how his book is going?

The Bank Holiday Murders was an outstanding read that I go back to every 6 months are so. I've been anxiously awaiting any news on his Victims Book.

Hi Dane, thanks so much for saying that. I got most of the work done on my next book some months ago and then kind of burnt out and stepped away from it, but I'm back to work now and hoping to have it out by Christmas. The book is titled Whitechapel Confidential and might be subtitled 'Select Essays on Jack the Ripper', although now I'm toying with a more provocative subtitle, since I'm not sure the word 'essay' is very attractive. But I'll probably stick with that. Loads of crazy new stuff, predominantly surrounding the Buck's Row and Berner Street murders.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Dane_F]

I don't suppose Tom could give us an update on how his book is going?

The Bank Holiday Murders was an outstanding read that I go back to every 6 months are so. I've been anxiously awaiting any news on his Victims Book.

[martin wilson]

Thanks Debra, so he's out of the frame for the Smith murder. Another theory bites the dust!
Do you know the admission date for Poll? I asked the omniscient entity if she knew Kaminsky. Perhaps a better question would have been did she know OF Kaminsky? Which raises the somewhat ridiculous possibility she was the source, or a source for Kaminsky/Kosminski as well.
Black Lion Yard connects to the Whitechapel Road by some steps apparently, and I'm thinking of the clue of the man who lived not far from Bucks Row.

All the best.

[Debra A]

Hi Martin
Nathan Kaminsky was admitted March 24th at 5.30pm.

[martin wilson]

Hi Tom

Chris Scott was a brilliant researcher and he posted in 2008 a comprehensive list of admissions/discharges from the Whitechapel Union Infirmary.
Where an earlier date is shown I take it as the date of admission.
There is no admission date for Kaminsky, but the discharge date of 12/5/1888 was a Saturday.
Counting back 6 weeks gives us an admission date of the week beginning 2/4/1888, perhaps a few days later/earlier.
If it was later this gives us the rather more speculative coincidence of the attack on Emma Smith on 3/4/1888.

All the best.

[Tom_Wescott]

Sorry if this is old news, but I find it fascinating that Pearly Poll and Nathan Kaminsky were discharged from the Whitechapel Union Infirmary on the same day, 12/5/1888.
All the best.

Hi Martin, that is rather interesting. The following is from Christopher Morley's suspect guide here at the Casebook:

Nathan Kaminski

Kaminski was born in 1865 and was a Jewish boot maker, who resided at 15 Black Lion Yard. Diagnosed as suffering from syphilis, he was treated at the Whitechapel workhouse infirmary and was discharged as 'cured' six weeks later. Author Martin Fido, in the book The Crimes Detection And Death of Jack The Ripper, suggests that Kaminski was in fact the real Leather Apron, and that John Pizer was identified in error. This hypothesis is based on the fact that Kaminski's age, race and occupation are identical to David Cohen, and therefore they must be one and the same. Fido suggests that following the hunt for Leather Apron, Kaminski changed his name and occupation prior to his attack of raving mania. Therefore, when he was arrested it was under the incorrect name of David Cohen. Fido surmises that Kaminski was the real second suspect named in the Macnaghten Memoranda, and that the name Kosminsky was used in error. Little is known about what precisely happened to Kaminski and he appears to have simply vanished from the face of the earth. If Kaminski was therefore Cohen, why were the police still on Ripper alert after Cohen's death.


Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[martin wilson]

Sorry if this is old news, but I find it fascinating that Pearly Poll and Nathan Kaminsky were discharged from the Whitechapel Union Infirmary on the same day, 12/5/1888.
All the best.