The Escape Of Jack The Ripper ( Hainsworth & Agius, 2020)

[Lemonjelly]

from the amazon link in the OP:

Hardcover: 70000 pages

Now that might be a lotta info!

I never bought JH's first book, because every time I see it it is over £30. I'm cautious about spending that kinda money.
I'll consider seventy thousand pages for twenty quid though!

[Howard Brown]

Yo, Lem !

You have a book review for this month, my friend ?

[Anna Morris]

Or is there something wrong with Amazon? I remember looking for the Sheldens' books and the price being something like $2500.00. (A higher number in English pounds.) I figured it was a misprint and later figured the page must have been out of date and in need of removal or re-booting.

[Lemonjelly]

Yo, Lem !

You have a book review for this month, my friend ?

Not just yet sir! I try to vary my reading, and have just started a 700 page novel by stephen king (sleeping beauties). However, very likely a JtR book will follow that.

[Robert Linford]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1231613/jack-the-ripper-murder-london-news-uk-update-crime-scotland-yard-killer-prostitute

[Cogidubnus]

The Express describes the book as a "salacious autobiography" - you heard it here first, Daily Express claims Jonathan was JtR...

[Robert Linford]

Or maybe the book was ghost-written by Druitt.

[Cogidubnus]

I wonder which is worse?

[Abby Normal]

Is this available in the states yet?

[Paul Butler]

Is this available in the states yet?

It certainly isn't available on UK Amazon yet. I'm looking forward to it. Jonathan's last one was a good, if pricey, read.

[Howard Brown]

Jon provided a new blurb for the upcoming book :

For nearly 100 years, the question has repeatedly been asked: who was 'Jack the Ripper'? The real question that should be answered, however, is why? Why were five poor, defenceless women savagely murdered in the slums of Whitechapel in the autumn of 1888?

Credible Victorian sources including an Old Etonian police chief (Sir Melville Macnaghten), a famous writer on true crime (George R. Sims), a Conservative MP (Henry Farquharson) and, most incriminatingly, members of the killer's own family knew that 'Jack the Ripper' was Montague John Druitt. He escaped earthly justice by drowning himself in the Thames. This book answers the question of why in 1888 Druitt, a barrister, part-time teacher and first-class cricketer, killed and mutilated women driven into prostitution through social neglect.

Compiled from years of meticulous research, The Escape of Jack the Ripper moves from the suffering of impoverished Whitechapel to genteel London society, picturesque Dorset, the Inner Temple and the anonymity of the private asylums of France and England. The struggle of Druitt's desperate, respectable family to cover up for their dead Montie, whilst preventing any innocent person being hanged for his crimes, is told here. In the Edwardian era, Sir Melville and G. R. Sims ensured that the public understood that the long-deceased Whitechapel fiend was neither poor nor an immigrant, but rather a product of the British establishment.

The photographs include the newly discovered last known image of Druitt.

[Paul]

The Express describes the book as a "salacious autobiography" - you heard it here first, Daily Express claims Jonathan was JtR...

I don't know what's 'salacious' about it. Maybe I haven't got to that bit yet. It might be because of other distractions, but I'm finding it rather tough going. Good, but tough going.

[Paul Butler]

I don't know what's 'salacious' about it. Maybe I haven't got to that bit yet. It might be because of other distractions, but I'm finding it rather tough going. Good, but tough going.

Did you get an advance copy Paul? Amazon still says March 15th.

[Howard Brown]

Compiled from years of meticulous research, The Escape of Jack the Ripper moves from the suffering of impoverished Whitechapel to genteel London society, picturesque Dorset, the Inner Temple and the anonymity of the private asylums of France and England
-Jon Hainsworth-



Looking through articles from 1907 tonight, I came across this :

George Sims was a Druitt man. Since that's the case, this line referring to Jack The Ripper being released from an asylum would be about Druitt.

The Referee
Mustard & Cress Column, Page 11
October 13, 1907
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[Howard Brown]