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The Big Book of Jack the Ripper
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Otto Penzler (Goodreads Author)
A new anthology from Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler, centered around the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper.
Of all the real-life serial killers whose gruesome deeds have splashed across headlines throughout human history, few have reached the near-mythical status of Jack the Ripper. Terrorizing the world with a rash of ...more
Of all the real-life serial killers whose gruesome deeds have splashed across headlines throughout human history, few have reached the near-mythical status of Jack the Ripper. Terrorizing the world with a rash of ...more
Kindle Edition, 864 pages
Expected publication:
October 4th 2016
by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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Do not be confused by this book. About 19% of it is non-fiction including pieces written during the time of the Ripper murders as well as later essays commenting upon the murders and possible suspects. The Ripper murders is something I spend a semester looking at in graduate school and I cannot say that I was impressed by the presentation of the primary, contemporary, and modern pieces here nor in their presentation. Images of newspaper text would educate the reader better and give everyone a se
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Otto Penzler is an editor of mystery fiction in the United States, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, where he lives.
Otto Penzler founded The Mysteriour Press in 1975 and was the publisher of The Armchair Detective, the Edgar-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction, for seventeen years.
Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, for The Encycl ...more
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Otto Penzler founded The Mysteriour Press in 1975 and was the publisher of The Armchair Detective, the Edgar-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction, for seventeen years.
Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, for The Encycl ...more
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