A contemporary review ( from 2017 ) of Richard Underwood's 2017 work, Gaslight Lawyers, which contains two chapters on the Ali Trial....critiqued by Lillian Brown.
Gaslight Lawyers: The true allure of the book is in its artfully chosen details, taken from sources ranging from court transcripts to personal memoirs. Richard H. Underwood’s "Gaslight Lawyers" is an intriguing collection of stories profiling some of New York...
00:54:36 - If you like true crime podcasts, be sure to download this episode!Author Luke Jerod Kummer uncovered new evidence about the real-life case that capt…
Yesterday, I found out that George R. R. Martin, the author of Game of Thrones, had started a fictional novel on the Brown Murder back in 1986. I've attached a PDF from 1986 when he was about to begin working on the book. As of 2022, his project is still unfinished having written 100 pages of the proposed book.
Quartet is the 2001 Boskone book by Guest of Honor George R. R. Martin. It is a sampling of his work, with three stories and one teleplay.
In Black and White and Red all Over, George Martin takes his readers back to turn of the century New York. Follow the mystery that surrounds the killing of an elderly whore. Did Jack the Ripper do it? Is she really dead? Who then does cub reporter Kate Hawthorne apparently stumble across a few years later? What role have the gangs of New York in the investigation reopened by veteran reporter Henry Munce? And who is Ned Cullen, besides a charming rogue? This is an unfinished novel.
Sprinkled in the background are the "colorful" men that controlled yellow journalism in New York: Pulitzer, Hearst, Bennett and Teddy Roosevelt, before he was President of the United States.
Jack the Ripper’s serial killing spree of 1888 shocked the world, triggering panic from Paris to South America that he could strike anywhere, anytime. New Yorkers in particular were on high alert when local prostitute Carrie Brown, a.k.a. “Old Shakespeare,” was found brutally murdered in a seedy Manhattan hotel on the waterfront. NYPD Chief of Detectives Thomas Byrnes accused an Algerian named Amir Ben Ali of the crime. He was convicted of second degree murder despite the evidence against him being doubtful, but pardoned eleven years later. Who was the real killer?
To explore one of the most notorious crimes of the Gilded Age is Luke Jerod Kummer, author of the Audible audiobook Takers Mad. In his research, questions about what really happened in the hotel on that monstrous night began to reveal themselves. Did the police scapegoat the man arrested for the crime? What about the blood that detectives found? Or did authorities actually let Jack the Ripper walk free?
Not to ruin anyone's impression of what this podcast covers before they listen to it, the old myth of Ali being pardoned is once more revived. He wasn't as anyone who follows our discussions on this site will already know.
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