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  • Bridewell
    Commissioner
    • Apr 2011
    • 4039

    #31
    Originally posted by Tom_Wescott View Post
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't only the latest edition titled 'Complete'? I thought the earlier ones were just JTR: A-Z. To be fair, I haven't looked at them since 2010 when the new one came out because that's the only one I use.

    But yes, anyone buying A-Z make sure you get the 2010 edition. Which seriously needs a Kindle edition, by the way.

    Yours truly,

    Tom Wescott
    Apologies, Tom, yes. I have the later version only, having given the other to my daughter.
    I won't always agree but I'll try not to be disagreeable.

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    • PaulB
      Superintendent
      • Jun 2010
      • 2218

      #32
      Originally posted by Tom_Wescott View Post
      Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't only the latest edition titled 'Complete'? I thought the earlier ones were just JTR: A-Z. To be fair, I haven't looked at them since 2010 when the new one came out because that's the only one I use.

      But yes, anyone buying A-Z make sure you get the 2010 edition. Which seriously needs a Kindle edition, by the way.

      Yours truly,

      Tom Wescott
      Kindle edition is coming next year.

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      • Scott Nelson
        Superintendent
        • Feb 2008
        • 2428

        #33
        I've heard of this book. Apparently it goes back to....1991, I think. Does anybody have an old edition they could lend me?

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        • Tom_Wescott
          Commissioner
          • Feb 2008
          • 7001

          #34
          Originally posted by PaulB View Post
          Kindle edition is coming next year.
          That's great news! It will be a big seller.

          Yours truly,

          Tom Wescott

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          • Lechmere
            Inactive
            • Oct 2010
            • 3450

            #35
            In answer to the opening question...
            My one...
            ...when it comes out.

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            • Tom_Wescott
              Commissioner
              • Feb 2008
              • 7001

              #36
              Originally posted by Lechmere View Post
              In answer to the opening question...
              My one...
              ...when it comes out.
              That's two years from now.

              Yours truly,

              Tom Wescott

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              • Amanda
                Inactive
                • Sep 2014
                • 400

                #37
                Originally posted by Lechmere View Post
                In answer to the opening question...
                My one...
                ...when it comes out.
                Unless mine comes out first...

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                • Tom_Wescott
                  Commissioner
                  • Feb 2008
                  • 7001

                  #38
                  Originally posted by Amanda View Post
                  Unless mine comes out first...
                  Uh oh, the race is on. Just be sure Ed doesn't cut you off at the Cross, Amanda.

                  Yours truly,

                  Tom Wescott

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                  • Amanda
                    Inactive
                    • Sep 2014
                    • 400

                    #39
                    Ha,ha...

                    Originally posted by Tom_Wescott View Post
                    Uh oh, the race is on. Just be sure Ed doesn't cut you off at the Cross, Amanda.

                    Yours truly,

                    Tom Wescott
                    Hi Tom,
                    No competition. Mine is a totally different angle...

                    Let's just say it probably won't ruffle any feathers on here.
                    Amanda

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                    • Tom_Wescott
                      Commissioner
                      • Feb 2008
                      • 7001

                      #40
                      Originally posted by Amanda View Post
                      Hi Tom,
                      No competition. Mine is a totally different angle...

                      Let's just say it probably won't ruffle any feathers on here.
                      Amanda
                      If it doesn't piss someone off then you've gone wrong somewhere.

                      Yours truly,

                      Tom Wescott

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                      • Amanda
                        Inactive
                        • Sep 2014
                        • 400

                        #41
                        Good point

                        Originally posted by Tom_Wescott View Post
                        If it doesn't piss someone off then you've gone wrong somewhere.

                        Yours truly,

                        Tom Wescott
                        Ha,ha, good point Tom.

                        I already pissed off Trevor a while back when his Feigenbaum book came out.

                        Let's just say my research is a lot more thorough.
                        Amanda

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                        • Monty
                          Commissioner
                          • Feb 2008
                          • 5414

                          #42
                          Originally posted by Lechmere View Post
                          In answer to the opening question...
                          My one...
                          ...when it comes out.
                          The question refers to non fiction.

                          It'll never qualify.

                          Monty
                          Monty

                          https://forum.casebook.org/core/imag...t/evilgrin.gif

                          Author of Capturing Jack the Ripper.

                          http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1445621622

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                          • milpool
                            Cadet
                            • Nov 2014
                            • 6

                            #43
                            Originally posted by Cogidubnus View Post
                            Hi there Milpool

                            Depends what else you've read...

                            Tom's book is excellent, and as I've said before, something completely different....but not really a read for a total novice...I say this not condescendingly, but because there are themes and inferences therein that a beginner might not really totally get...

                            What've you read so far milpool?

                            All the best

                            Dave
                            Hi Dave,

                            Thanks for the reply.

                            I'm a fairly hardened student of the Ripper murders. I studied the case from about 1988 until about 6/7 years ago when I took a break and now I'm getting the bug again.
                            I've read a fair number of books by the great Ripper authors, Rumbelow, Sugden, Fido, Begg, Evans etc.
                            I've also read the book on Donston Stephenson by Ivor Edwards, I've read a lot about the Diary and Patricia Cornwell's rather unpopular book on Walter Sickert amongst others. I've also got a lot of sourcebooks and general Ripper related material, so I'm pretty well read on the subject.

                            Now that I'm back on the Ripper scene, I've noticed that there's been another hundred thousand books published! What I'm looking for now is something slightly different to what I've read previously and therefore the Bank Holiday Murders seems an attractive starting point.

                            However, if anyone has any others that they recommend, I'd be very grateful.

                            Cheers guys!

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                            • GUT
                              Commissioner
                              • Jan 2014
                              • 7841

                              #44
                              Have you read Helena's book on Chapman.
                              G U T

                              There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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                              • milpool
                                Cadet
                                • Nov 2014
                                • 6

                                #45
                                Originally posted by GUT View Post
                                Have you read Helena's book on Chapman.
                                Not yet, does it come highly recommended?

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