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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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Rarely has a book on Jack the Ripper been written with such visceral anger: anger at Jack, at Ripperology, at the establishment, and anger at the police cover-up that allowed one of the world s most infamous serial killers to remain free Robinson s research is undoubtedly impressive . A bloody good read. --The Guardian"

Robinson s achievement isn t in revealing the Ripper but in writing the most involving, audacious, and wonderfully bonkers book of the year. --Irish Times"

A strange, mind-boggling mixture . Anyone coming blind to the book might think it a collaboration between Dr. David Starkey and Johnny Rotten. --Mail on Sunday"

"Robinson's achievement isn't in revealing the Ripper but in writing the most involving, audacious, and wonderfully bonkers book of the year."--Irish Times

"A strange, mind-boggling mixture.... Anyone coming blind to the book might think it a collaboration between Dr. David Starkey and Johnny Rotten."--Mail on Sunday

"Rarely has a book on Jack the Ripper been written with such visceral anger: anger at Jack, at 'Ripperology', at the establishment, and anger at the police cover-up that allowed one of the world's most infamous serial killers to remain free...Robinson's...research is undoubtedly impressive.... A bloody good read."--The Guardian
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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.

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  • PublisherHarper
  • Publication date2015
  • ISBN 10 006229637X
  • ISBN 13 9780062296375
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages864
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