Prince Jack by Spiering Frank (43 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. (Non-Fiction, Jack The ripper, Serial killers).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. The cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed. The binding is tight. 222pp.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.5.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.5.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.75.

Paperback. 12mo. Condition: Fair. 1st printing. Book remains in fair condition, heavily creased, rubbed and bumped around edges. Binding secure though creased and chipped at ends. Corners curled upwards. Bumped fore edge has put short tears on front cover through fore edges of pages. Top edge foxed. 222p. Previous owner name and bookstore stamp on front matter. Sold as-is. A reading copy.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. DJ has some browning, wear around edges, and scuffing.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Jove Books January 1980 Binding: Trade Paperback Crease to top right corner of front cover, previous seller price sticker on upper right edge of front cover. Otherwise tight and clean.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good paperback. First edition. Text clean. Illustrated. Page 19 dog-eared. Crease on spine. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Mass market paperback. Condition: Good. 222, [2] pages. Illustrations (16 pages of exclusive photos). Map. Bibliography. Cover has some wear and soiling. Introduction by Nigel Morland. Historical and psychological details back up Spiering's argument that Jack the Ripper was Albert Victor Christian Edward, Duke of Clarence, eldest son of Edward VII, and heir to the British throne. Best-selling author, Frank Spiering, also known as the Columbo of True Crime, lived by the motto, where there is smoke, there is fire. Throughout his career and years of painstaking research, he was never afraid to pull back the curtain on a story, bringing it into the light, no matter how grisly and disturbing the facts might prove to be. Derived from a Kirkus review: It would be difficult to make the story of Jack the Ripper dull, and Spiering's fluent narrative of the series of murders in 1888 tingles in all the right places. Spiering's account begins by naming the killer and goes on to trace his movements when not assaulting prostitutes--in asylums, on state tours, in the House of Lords. His Jack is Albert Victor, called Eddy, Duke of Clarence and elder son of the future Edward VII, a suggestion examined in several books recently but never so firmly insisted upon. Dull from childhood and perverse from adolescence, infected with syphilis by a prostitute, and associate of Cambridge homosexuals, Eddy died a couple of years after the murders. Upon circumstantial evidence and the suspicious fact that the official files of the case have been tampered with, Spiering erects if not a mountain then at least a Tower Hill of surmise. An eerie book but, at best, an educated guess. Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer was also called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved women working as prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of the East End of London. Their throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to speculation that their killer had some anatomical or surgical knowledge. Rumors that the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and numerous letters were received by media outlets and Scotland Yard from individuals purporting to be the murderer. The name "Jack the Ripper" originated in the "Dear Boss letter" written by an individual claiming to be the murderer, which was disseminated in the press. The letter is widely believed to have been a hoax and may have been written by journalists to heighten interest in the story and increase their newspapers' circulation. The "From Hell letter" received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee came with half of a preserved human kidney, purportedly taken from one of the victims. The public came increasingly to believe in the existence of a single serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, mainly because of both the extraordinarily brutal nature of the murders and media coverage of the crimes. Extensive newspaper coverage bestowed widespread and enduring international notoriety on the Ripper, and the legend solidified. A police investigation into a series of eleven brutal murders committed in Whitechapel and Spitalfields between 1888 and 1891 was unable to connect all the killings conclusively to the murders of 1888. Five victimsâ"Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kellyâ"are known as the "canonical five" and their murders between 31 August and 9 November 1888 are often considered the most likely to be linked. The murders were never solved, and the legends surrounding these crimes became a combination of historical research, folklore, and pseudohistory, capturing public imagination to the present day. First Jove Edition [stated]. First printing [stat.