They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007548885 ISBN 13: 9780007548880

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 1652

Synopsis

The mystery surrounding Jack the Ripper's crimes has led to more than a century of obsessive theorizing about his identity. Now, indignant at Ripperologists' tendency to believe the 19th century's 'greatest liars', Bruce Robinson offers 'a repudiation of virtually everything' published on the subject; his lengthy but lively analysis of the evidence exposes a web of corruption and cover-up that helped the killer to escape. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.

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From the Back Cover

For over a hundred years, the mystery of Jack the Ripper has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of obsessive theorists and endless volumes purporting to finally reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorized Victorian England.

But what if there was never really any mystery at all? What if the Ripper was always hiding in plain sight, deliberately leaving a trail of clues to his identity for anyone who cared to look, while cynically mocking those who were supposedly attempting to bring him to justice?

In They All Love Jack, the award-winning film director and screenwriter Bruce Robinson exposes the cover-up that enabled one of history's most notorious serial killers to remain at large. More than twelve years in the writing, this is no mere radical reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper legend and an enthralling hunt for the killer. A literary high-wire act reminiscent of Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompson, it is an expressionistic journey through the cesspools of late-Victorian society, a phantasmagoria of highly placed villains, hypocrites, and institutionalized corruption.

Polemic forensic investigation and panoramic portrait of an age, underpinned by deep scholarship and delivered in Robinson's inimitably vivid and scabrous prose, They All Love Jack is an absolutely riveting and unique book, demolishing the theories of generations of self-appointed experts—the so-called Ripperologists—to make clear, at last, who really did it; and, more important, how he managed to get away with it for so long.

About the Author

Bruce Robinson is a director, screenwriter, novelist, and actor, most famous for writing and directing the British cult classic Withnail & I. Robinson was nominated for an Academy Award and won a BAFTA Award for his screenplay for The Killing Fields and directed an acclaimed adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary, starring Johnny Depp and Aaron Eckhart. Robinson is also the author of a novel, a collection of interviews, and two children's books. He lives in London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 1652
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007548885
• ISBN 13: 9780007548880
• Binding: Paperback