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Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
Publisher
Future Publishing Ltd
Language
English
Description
Discover the chilling stories, documents and evidence behind London’s biggest mystery - the case of Jack the Ripper. History’s most notorious serial killer, the Ripper’s identity is still unconfirmed, but in this book we trace every victim, every detective, every letter and every bit of evidence so you can make up your own mind. We’ve collated the most likely suspects and the leads that brought police officials and historians to them, and
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and of the Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography
The award-winning, best-selling book that changes the narrative of the "Ripper" murders forever
Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England,...
The award-winning, best-selling book that changes the narrative of the "Ripper" murders forever
Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England,...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
While attending an intensive writing workshop held in a crumbling Victorian building, young Ruth Walker is challenged to write the ultimate horror movie by Professor Richard Wise. But what are his motives? What secrets are hidden inside the ancient building? And are the knives Ruth has discovered really those used by notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper?
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. Could it be a copycat killer...or has the depraved prince been brought back to life?"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Formats
Description
Offers a memoir taken from a manuscript purported to have been written in the 1920s by a man claiming to be the perpetrator of the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, along with an appendix by an expert on the murders that analyzes the text.
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Audrey Rose and Thomas are on the hunt for the depraved, elusive killer known as the White City Devil. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse has them fighting to stay one step ahead of the brilliant serial killer--or see their fateful romance cut short by unspeakable tragedy.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to the cosy crimes of the Golden Age, renowned historian Lucy Worsley explores the evolution of the traditional English murder{u2014}and reveals why we are so fascinated by this sinister subject.
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Some crimes are so sensational that they leap out of the annals of crime and into popular culture. From Jack the Ripper to Roswell to Lady Di, each episode in this series revisits a page of our shared history, meticulously decoding and deconstructing a sensationalist news item. Unjustly disdained by historians and generally left to the tabloid press, these stories reveal much about the societies that spawned them and the later generations that keep...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story "In the Grove" served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film Rashōmon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own obsession with Akutagawa, David Peace delves into the...
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