Jack the Ripper: Light-Hearted Friend

Wallace, Richard; Wilson, Colin

ISBN 10: 0962719560 / ISBN 13: 9780962719561

Published by Gemini Press, 1996

About this Item

First printing. Blue ink spots on fore edge, affecting margin of a few pages. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1996 Trade Paperback. 262 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts and maps. Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend is a 1996 book by Richard Wallace in which Wallace proposed a theory that British author Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles L. Dodgson (1832 - 1898), and his colleague Thomas Vere Bayne (1829 - 1908) were responsible for the Jack the Ripper murders. This theory was based primarily on a number of anagrams derived from passages in two of Carroll's works, The Nursery "Alice", an adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for younger readers, and from the first volume of Sylvie and Bruno.[1] Carroll first published both works in 1889 and was probably still working on them during the period of the Ripper murders. Wallace claimed that the books contained hidden but detailed descriptions of the murders. This theory gained enough attention to make Carroll a late but notable addition to the list of suspects, although one that is generally not taken very seriously.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jack the Ripper: Light-Hearted Friend
• Publisher: Gemini Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962719560
• ISBN 13: 9780962719561
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 15 ounces

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Synopsis

Proves that legendary children's author Lewis Carroll was really Jack the Ripper!
-- Movie rights sold.
-- Endorsed with an introduction by British expert, Colin Wilson.
-- Praised by reviewers for the quality and thoroughness of it's research -- a complete circumstantial case.
-- Presented by Harper's Magazine in November, 1996.
-- Author's sequel to The Agony of Lewis Carroll.
This work presents a complete circumstantial case rivaling any others thus far. It analyzes the unique method of communication Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) used in books he published after the murders to "confess" to the killings. Also includes a motive, psychological profile, knowledge, and opportunity, along with a specially commissioned forensic handwriting analysis.