Ripperology - A Study of the World's First Serial Killer And a Literary Phenomenon

Informationen zum Autor Robin Odell has written or cowritten fifteen books in the fields of criminology and forensic science. He won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for The Murderers' Who's Who. Klappentext The first study of its kind, "Ripperology" presents a sequential history of literary investigations of Jack the Ripper's crimes and addresses the principal phases of Ripper speculations, including the RrevelationsS of highers-up in Scotland Yard who pretended to know more than they actually did. Zusammenfassung Ripperology - an obsessive interest in studying the crimes of Jack the Ripper - is a subject of interest that has suffered from confusion! exaggeration! and hyperbole. This study presents a sequential history of literary investigations of Jack the Ripper's crimes! and aims to tell the story of the literary efforts directed at solving the mystery.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Robin Odell, The Kent State University Press
• Verlag: Kent State Univ Pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.04.2006
• EAN: 9780873388610
• ISBN: 978-0-87338-861-0
• Seiten: 272
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Serien: True Crime; True Crime S.; True Crime; True Crime S.
• Thema: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges