The Bank Holiday Murders The True Story of the First Whitechapel Murders Jack the Ripper Book 1 eBook Tom Wescott
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From the author of Ripper Confidential New Research on the Whitechapel Murders
This is Jack the Ripper's origin story.
WINNER - Indie Reader Award for Best True Crime Book
WINNER - Independent Publisher (IPPY) Bronze Medal Award for Best History Book 2014
FINALIST - Indie Excellence Award for Best True Crime Book (second place)*
Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of London’s East End from August through November of 1888 in what is dubbed the ‘Autumn of Terror’. However, the grisly ripping of Polly Nichols on August 31st was not the first unsolved murder of the year. The April murder of Emma Smith and the August murder of Martha Tabram both occurred on bank holidays. They baffled the police and press alike and were assumed by the original investigators to have been the first murders in the series. Were they correct?
In this provocative work of literary archeology, author Tom Wescott places these early murders in their proper historical context and digs to unearth new evidence and hard facts not seen in over 125 years.
The Bank Holiday Murders is the only book of its kind. It eschews the tired approach of unsatisfying ‘final solutions’ in favor of solid research, logical reasoning and new information. The clues followed are not drawn from imagination but from the actual police reports and press accounts of the time. The questions asked by Wescott are ones first suggested by the original investigators but lost to time until now. The answers provided are compelling and sometimes explosive.
Among the revelations are
The true history of the 'Eddowes Shawl' or 'Ripper Shawl' discussed in the new book 'Naming Jack the Ripper' by Russell Edwards.
New information linking the murders of Smith & Tabram to the same killer(s).
Proof that the police did not believe key witnesses in either case.
Proof that at least one of these witnesses was working with the murderer.
New evidence connecting many of the victims that may lead to their actual slayers.
Information on Emily Horsnell, the ACTUAL first Whitechapel murder victim.
The hidden truth of ‘Leather Apron’ and its role in unraveling the Ripper mystery.
Proof of a corrupt police sergeant who thwarted the investigation. Was he protecting the Ripper?
Much more.
The Bank Holiday Murders The True Story of the First Whitechapel Murders brings us closer than ever to the actual truth behind the Jack the Ripper story and is sure to appeal to fans of Paul Begg, Stewart P. Evans, Philip Sugden, Donald Rumbelow, Ann Rule, Patricia Cornwell (Chasing the Ripper) as well as readers of Victorian true crime, true life mysteries and historical cold cases in general.
The Bank Holiday Murders The True Story of the First Whitechapel Murders Jack the Ripper Book 1 eBook Tom Wescott
I've had an intermittent fascination with the Ripper murders, and a more constant one with the middle to late Victorian period, since 1975 or so. Books espousing radical and unexpected new theories about the Ripper murders appear every few years. Those which are well-researched and based on reason rather than wishful speculation are rather less frequent. This is definitely one of the latter.One of the things that makes the Ripper murders so perennially fascinating to so many is the wilderness of mirrors in which the student of the case soon finds himself. Almost everyone who studies the case in any depth comes to feel the haunting sense of a pattern, dimly perceived, fragmentary and elusive, which fades away into the background the more closely we try to view it. Mr. Wescott has exposed a big piece of that hidden pattern, perhaps more than anyone has managed to do in the past forty years or so. The implications for our understanding of the case are profound. It is perhaps not too much to suggest, as the author does, that in the light of this evidence we might be justified in once again studying the murders as a cold case, rather than as history.
"The Bank Holiday Murders" presents strong circumstantial evidence to connect Mary Ann Connelly, aka 'Pearly Poll', as an accomplice after the fact, if not before, to several of the canonical murders, as well as firmly linking her to people prominent in the Whitechapel community. While Connelly's credibility as a witness in the murder of Martha Tabram has never been very good, Wescott completely demolishes it, and in doing so convincingly paints her as a much more sinister figure than the bumbling attention-seeker hitherto portrayed. In the process, several things that have always seemed incongruous about this case suddenly start to make sense.
It should be noted, as the author clearly and properly does in the foreword, that this is not a book for general audiences. If you're not well-versed in the history and lore of the Ripper, if you're not familiar with the victims and the witnesses, and if you know little of how the poorest classes lived in Victorian London, then you won't get as much from this book as you might. There are no illustrations, and there are no maps. The author has already stated on a Jack the Ripper discussion forum that this was to keep the cost of the book down, and I think he's made the correct decision. If you're interested in the case to this level of detail, then you already know (or have maps of) the neighborhood, and you've already seen the surviving pictures of all the principals and locations.
I recommend this highly. It is a stunner, presented in the most quiet and unpretentious fashion.
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The Bank Holiday Murders The True Story of the First Whitechapel Murders Jack the Ripper Book 1 eBook Tom Wescott Reviews
Very good book on the beginning of 1888 reign of Jack the Ripper murders, made me understand better how difficult it had to be for the Police to try to catch this individual / individuals, which the newspapers named Jack the Ripper in order to sell newspapers. I have many books on this subject and this was one of the best.
New books about Jack the Ripper carry with them the suspicion that everything they say has been said before. Fortunately, Mr. Westcott has not written yet another case solved book. He focuses on Whitechapel murders that most Ripper scholars do not regard as the handiwork of Jack. His work on the Emma Smith and Martha Tabram murders is impressive and demostrates that witnesses lied and thus some of the reasons for not crediting these murders to Jack vanish. The problem (recognized by the author) is that absent new evidence any new theory, no matter how reasonable, is pure conjecture. He is less successful in his treatment of the 1901 murder of Annie Austin, which occurred inside a crowded lodging house. Although it occurred in Whitechapel, there is a really no other reason for linking it to the Ripper murders. Mr. Westcott has made what we thought we knew less certain and thus this book should be read by those interested in the Whitechapel murders.
The Bank Holiday Murders is the kind of book that really exemplifies the phrase "the truth is stranger than fiction"; it's a wholly intriguing and utterly fascinating exploration of the Whitechapel murders and the murders of two women who may have never had their true killers brought to justice. Tom Wescott pulls us readers into a vivid and factual account of the events that surrounded the Bank Holiday Murders and the parts investigators, witnesses and more played in bungled murder investigations. The book is wonderfully involved using countless sources to add layer upon layer of insight into the murders, bringing factual and thoughtful revelations to the murders of Emma Smith and Martha Tabram.
I have to say that I haven't been so engaged in a non-fiction book like this in quite a while. Mr. Wescott really does this investigation justice with an attention to detail, a clear and non-biased approach, and a desire to see the truth of these historical events shed light on. Overall, I had a great time reading this and would say that it was completely well worth the read; it is something that I would recommend to true crime readers and those interested in playing a part in uncovering a mystery left to time.
As a relatively new armchair Ripperologist, I chose to read Mr. Wescott's book "The Bank Holiday Murders" before reading any others. Why? Because I wanted to study the facts of the Whitechapel Murders from the very beginning without too much bias and without anyone trying to form a subject theory for me. The Bank Holiday Murders delivers just that. The obvious amount of detailed investigation that went into this book is phenomenal. However it is the depth of thought with which Mr Wescott presents the facts and his ability to read intelligently and logically between the lines of what was reported - and what was not - is what I believe sets this book apart. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Ripperology, even for those with only a basic knowledge of the case. As an added bonus it is easy to follow and fun to read - A real page turner! The Bank Holiday Murders is the standard by which I will judge all other books on the subject of Jack the Ripper.
I've had an intermittent fascination with the Ripper murders, and a more constant one with the middle to late Victorian period, since 1975 or so. Books espousing radical and unexpected new theories about the Ripper murders appear every few years. Those which are well-researched and based on reason rather than wishful speculation are rather less frequent. This is definitely one of the latter.
One of the things that makes the Ripper murders so perennially fascinating to so many is the wilderness of mirrors in which the student of the case soon finds himself. Almost everyone who studies the case in any depth comes to feel the haunting sense of a pattern, dimly perceived, fragmentary and elusive, which fades away into the background the more closely we try to view it. Mr. Wescott has exposed a big piece of that hidden pattern, perhaps more than anyone has managed to do in the past forty years or so. The implications for our understanding of the case are profound. It is perhaps not too much to suggest, as the author does, that in the light of this evidence we might be justified in once again studying the murders as a cold case, rather than as history.
"The Bank Holiday Murders" presents strong circumstantial evidence to connect Mary Ann Connelly, aka 'Pearly Poll', as an accomplice after the fact, if not before, to several of the canonical murders, as well as firmly linking her to people prominent in the Whitechapel community. While Connelly's credibility as a witness in the murder of Martha Tabram has never been very good, Wescott completely demolishes it, and in doing so convincingly paints her as a much more sinister figure than the bumbling attention-seeker hitherto portrayed. In the process, several things that have always seemed incongruous about this case suddenly start to make sense.
It should be noted, as the author clearly and properly does in the foreword, that this is not a book for general audiences. If you're not well-versed in the history and lore of the Ripper, if you're not familiar with the victims and the witnesses, and if you know little of how the poorest classes lived in Victorian London, then you won't get as much from this book as you might. There are no illustrations, and there are no maps. The author has already stated on a Jack the Ripper discussion forum that this was to keep the cost of the book down, and I think he's made the correct decision. If you're interested in the case to this level of detail, then you already know (or have maps of) the neighborhood, and you've already seen the surviving pictures of all the principals and locations.
I recommend this highly. It is a stunner, presented in the most quiet and unpretentious fashion.
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