The Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper (33 page)

21
New York World
, 29 January 1889.

  
1
William Le Queux,
Things I Know about Kings, Celebrities and Crooks
(London: E. Nash & Grayson, 1923).

  
2
People
, 26 December 1926.

  
3
Leonard Matters,
The Mystery of Jack the Ripper
(London: Hutchinson, 1929; W. H. Allen, 1948; Arrow, 1964).

  
4
Salt Lake Herald
, 25 August 1901.

  
5
The manuscript was discovered in early 2008 among the effects of Sydney George Hulme-Beaman, creator of the hugely successful children’s character Larry the Lamb and Toytown. See James Carnac,
The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper
(London: Transworld, 2011) for a transcript of the manuscript and analysis by Paul Begg.

  
6
See John Bennett, ‘The Autobiography of James Carnac’,
Ripperologist
124 (February 2012) for further analysis on authorship and content.

  
7
Ogden Standard Examiner
, 16 October 1888.

  
8
Edwin T. Woodhall,
Jack the Ripper: Or When London Walked in Terror
(London and Dublin: Mellifont Press, 1937; reprint London: P&D Riley, 1997).

  
9
Woodhall joined the Metropolitan Police in 1907 (warrant no. 94985). CID (Special Branch), 1910. Resigned, 1919.

10
In 1944,
Der Teufel von Whitechapel
by Graf Michael Alexander Soltikow was published in Germany. Although it dealt with
numerous other English criminal cases, it was ostensibly a piece of anti-Semitic, anti-British propaganda.

11
Richard Whittington-Egan,
A Casebook on Jack the Ripper
(London: Wildy & Sons, 1975).

12
William Stewart,
Jack the Ripper: A New Theory
(London: Quality Press, 1939).

13
Sir Melville Macnaghten,
Days of My Years
(London: Edward Arnold, 1914).

14
Philip Sugden,
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
(London: Robinson, 1994).

15
This report was sent anonymously to Scotland Yard along with other material – including the famous ‘Dear Boss’ letter – in 1987. It is in the file MEPO 3/3153 (National Archives).

16
Donald McCormick,
The Identity of Jack the Ripper
(London: Jarrold, 1959; Pan Books, 1962; Arrow, 1970).

17
Ripper episodes broadcast on 5 and 12 November 1959. These programmes have long been lost.

18
Tom Cullen,
Autumn of Terror
(London: Bodley Head, 1965; Fontana, 1966, 1973).

19
Robin Odell,
Jack the Ripper in Fact and Fiction
(London: Harrap, 1965; Mayflower-Dell, 1966; Oxford: Mandrake, 2008).

20
London Evening Standard
, 8–12 August 1960.

21
The earliest known appearance of the term ‘Ripperologist’ comes in Wilson’s introduction to Alexander Kelly,
Jack the Ripper: A Bibliography and Review of the Literature
(London: Association of Assistant Librarians, S.E.D., 1972).

22
Colin Wilson and Pat Pitman,
Encyclopaedia of Murder
(London: Pan Books, 1961).

23
Philippe Jullian,
Edouard VII
(Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1962); translated as
Edward and the Edwardians
(New York: Viking Press, 1962).

24
Wilson, introduction to Kelly,
Jack the Ripper
.

25
Criminologist
, vol. 5, no. 18 (November 1970).

26
‘Court Circular Clears Clarence’,
The Times
, 4 November 1970.

27
UK broadcast 2 November 1970.

28
The Times
, 9 November 1970.

29
The Times
, 14 November 1970.

  
1
Michael Harrison,
Clarence: The Life of HRH the Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864–1892
) (London: W. H. Allen, 1972), published in the US as
Clarence: Was He Jack the Ripper?
(New York: Drake Publishing, 1974).

  
2
As recorded in the
Listener
, 17 August 1972.

  
3
Sunday Times
, 16 February 1975.

  
4
Daniel Farson,
Jack the Ripper
(London: Michael Joseph, 1972; Sphere, 1973).

  
5
The two detectives, played by Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor, appeared in
Z-Cars
and
Softly Softly
, which ran on the BBC from 1962 until 1978.

  
6
Jack the Ripper
; BBC TV, UK broadcast 13 July–17 August 1973 (six episodes), Stratford Johns, Frank Windsor, producers: Paul Bonner, Leonard Lewis.

  
7
UK broadcast 17 August 1973.

  
8
The Times
, 16 August 1973.

  
9
Donald Rumbelow,
The Complete Jack the Ripper
(London: W. H. Allen, 1975; Star Books, 1976/1981; W. H. Allen, 1987/8; Penguin, 2004; Virgin, 2013).

10
Richard Whittington-Egan,
A Casebook on Jack the Ripper
(London: Wildy & Sons, 1975).

11
Stephen Knight,
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution
(London: Harrap, 1976).

12
Warren was made a Knight Templar in Freemasonry in 1863 and
founded the Quattuor Coronati Lodge, consecrated in 1886. It was the first Masonic lodge devoted to research into the history of Freemasonry.

13
Sunday Times
, 18 June 1978.

14
Simon Wood’s collected research material on the ‘royal conspiracy theory’ can be found at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives.

15
Melvyn Fairclough,
The Ripper and the Royals
(London: Duckworth, 1991).

16
Fairclough suggests that the prince could have been the legendary ‘Monster of Glamis’, described traditionally as a horribly deformed member of the Bowes-Lyon family imprisoned in Glamis Castle.

17
Evening Standard
, 5 December 1991.

18
True Detective
, January 1989.

19
Peter Sutcliffe killed thirteen women, mostly prostitutes, in the north of England between 1975 and 1980. He was imprisoned for life at Broadmoor in 1981.

  
1
‘A New Theory on the Jack the Ripper Murders’,
True Crime
(April 1982).

  
2
Mark Andrews,
The Return of Jack the Ripper
(New York: Leisure Books, 1977).

  
3
Bruce Paley,
Jack the Ripper: The Simple Truth
(London: Headline, 1995).

  
4
Paul Harrison,
Jack the Ripper: The Mystery Solved
(London: Robert Hale, 1991).

  
5
These include previously unseen mortuary photos of Nichols, Chapman and Stride and the long-missing ‘Dear Boss’ letter, which was returned anonymously.

  
6
Weekend
, 6 August 1986.

  
7
James Tully,
The Secret of Prisoner 1167: Was This Man Jack the Ripper?
(London: Robinson, 1997).

  
8
James Kelly’s criminal files in HO 144/10064 (National Archives); Broadmoor case file is in the Berkshire Record Office.

  
9
Melvin Harris,
Jack the Ripper: The Bloody Truth
(London: Columbus Books, 1987).

10
Paul Begg,
Jack the Ripper: The Uncensored Facts
(London: Robson, 1988), later expanded and republished as
Jack the Ripper: The Facts
(2004).

11
Adam Wood and Keith Skinner, ‘Red Lines and Purple Pencil’,
Ripperologist
128 (October 2012), gives an exhaustive overview of the provenance of the book and marginalia.

12
‘Has This Man Revealed the Real Jack the Ripper?’,
Daily Telegraph
, 19 October 1987.

13
Crime Monthly
; BBC TV, UK broadcast 10 August 1990.

14
Hackney Gazette
, 10 October 1990.

15
US broadcast 1988.

16
Jean Overton Fuller,
Sickert and the Ripper Crimes
(Oxford: Mandrake, 1990, 2003).

17
Paul Begg, Martin Fido and Keith Skinner,
The Jack the Ripper A–Z
(London: Headline, 1991, 1994, 1996), updated as
The Complete Jack the Ripper A–Z
(London: John Blake, 2010).

18
Seth Linder, Keith Skinner and Caroline Morris,
Ripper Diary: Inside Story
(Stroud: Sutton, 2003).

19
Shirley Harrison,
The Diary of Jack the Ripper
(London: Smith Gryphon, 1993).

20
The Hitler Diaries were a collection of sixty notebooks allegedly containing memoirs written by Hitler between 1932 and 1945. They were proved to be forgeries, but
Stern
Magazine in Germany and
The Times
in the UK had already declared them genuine.

21
Observer
, 25 April 1993.

22
A. P. Wolf,
Jack the Myth
(London: Robert Hale, 1993).

23
Philip Sugden,
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
(London: Robinson, 2002).

24
Christopher Hudson, ‘Playing Games with Murder Most Foul’,
Evening Standard
, 25 September 1987.

25
Stewart P. Evans and Paul Gainey,
The Lodger: The Arrest and Escape of Jack the Ripper
(London: Century, 1996). Paul Gainey worked for the Suffolk Constabulary press office.

26
Bob Hinton,
From Hell …
(Abertillery: Old Bakehouse, 1998).

27
Paul H. Feldman,
Jack the Ripper: The Final Chapter
(London: Virgin, 1997).

28
Edited by Nick Warren and still extant.

29
Originally the
Newsletter of the Cloak and Dagger Club
(formed by Mark Galloway in 1994). The club has since been renamed the ‘Whitechapel Society 1888’ and publishes its own bi-monthly journal.
Ripperologist
has been an e-zine since 2006.

30
Originally edited by Christopher George. It has since been edited by Christoper-Michael DiGrazia (2001–4) and Dan Norder (2004–present).

31
Online at
www.casebook.org
.

32
See also ‘JTRForums’, hosted by Howard Brown, at
www.jtrforums.com
and ‘Jack the Ripper Writers’, Spiro Dimolanis’s forum at
www.ripperwriters.aforumfree.com
.

33
Maxim Jakubowski and Nathan Braund (eds.),
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper
(London: Robinson, 1999).

34
Stewart P. Evans and Keith Skinner,
The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook
(London: Robinson, 2000), published in the USA as
The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion
(New York: Carroll and Graf, 2001).

  
1
Stephen P. Ryder, ‘Patricia Cornwell and Walter Sickert – A Primer’,
www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-pamandsickert.html
, accessed 24 June 2013.

  
2
Matthew Sturgess,
Walter Sickert: A Life
(London: Harper Perennial, 2011).

  
3
Patricia Cornwell,
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed
(London: Little, Brown, 2002).

  
4
‘Stalking the Ripper’;
Omnibus
, BBC TV, UK broadcast 30 October 2002.

  
5
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
; CBS, first US broadcast 6 October 2000.

  
6
The X-Files
; Fox Network, US broadcast 1993–2001.

  
7
Daily Mail
, 8 March 2004.

  
8
Marriott was a detective working for the Buckinghamshire constabulary. He joined the police in 1970.

  
9
Professor David Canter,
Mapping Murder: The Secrets of Geographical Profiling
(London: Virgin, 2007).

10
Revealed – The Face of Jack the Ripper
; Channel 5, UK broadcast 21 November 2006.

11
Daily Mail
, 20 November 2006.

12
Trow was the author of a series of books recounting the fictional exploits of Inspector Lestrade, a character originally created by Arthur Conan Doyle for his series of Sherlock Holmes stories.

13
M. J. Trow,
The Many Faces of Jack the Ripper
(Chichester: Summersdale, 1997).

14
In a conversation with the authors, Trow said that he had not intended to write a suspect-based Ripper book, but that his publishers suggested he do so.

15
M. J. Trow,
Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer
(Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2009).

16
‘Jack the Ripper: Killer Revealed’; Discovery Channel, broadcast 11 October 2009.

17
M. J. Trow, ‘The Non-starter’,
Ripperologist
113 (April 2010).

18
Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Story
; Channel 5, broadcast 11 and 20 January 2011.

19
Created by Jake Luukkanen.

20
Paul Begg and John Bennett,
Jack the Ripper: CSI Whitechapel
(London: André Deutsch, 2012).

21
Includes vanity publishing, print on demand and e-books. Popular outlets include Lulu, Blurb, Authorhouse and Amazon.

22
Gerry Nixon, ‘Le Grand of the Strand’,
Ripperologist
16 (August 1998).

23
See Tom Wescott, ‘Jack and the Grapestalk’,
Ripper Notes
25 (January 2006), and ‘Le Grand: The New Prime Suspect’,
Casebook Examiner
2 (June 2010).

24
See Derek Osborne,
Ripperana
37 (July 2001); John Carey,
Ripperana
40 (April 2002); Michael Connor, ‘Did the Ripper Work for Pickfords?’,
Ripperologis
t 72 (October, 2006).