Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889
10 best books like Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889 (Rick Geary): Green River Killer: A True Detective Story, Jack the Ripper: The Casebook, Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics, The Complete Jack the Ripper, Billy Hazelnuts, Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes, Age of Bronze, Volume 1: A Thousand Ships, The Arctic Marauder, To the Heart of the Storm, Capote in Kansas
| Author | Jeff Jensen |
| ISBN | 1595825606 |
Throughout the 1980s, the highest priority of Seattle-area police was the apprehension of the Green River Killer, the man responsible for the murders of dozens of women, but in 1990, with the body count numbering at least forty-eight, the case was put in the hands of a single detective, Tom Jensen. After...
Investigate one of the most compelling killers of all time! Jack the Ripper: The Casebook takes readers on a tour of Victorian London’s underworld where the slayings took place, from street corner taverns to unsavory lodging houses. One by one the murder victims are revealed, the circumstances...
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| ISBN | 1626720657 |
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| Author | Donald Rumbelow |
| ISBN | 0140173951 |
Few stories have fastened their claws so firmly into the public imagination as the notorious and gruesome Whitechapel Murders of 1888. They were responsible for one of the most evocative legends in English folk history - Jack the Ripper. Best of all - for the myth-makers, that is - he was never caught,...
| Author | Tony Millionaire |
| ISBN | 1560977019 |
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| Author | Mary S. Hartman |
| ISBN | 0486780473 |
This riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause célèbre, and this mixture of scandal and scholarship offers illuminating details of backgrounds, deeds,...
| Author | Eric Shanower |
| ISBN | 1582402000 |
Daring heroes, breathtaking women, betrayals, love and death--the most spectacular war story ever told: The Trojan War. When a lustful Trojan prince abducts the beautiful Queen Helen of Sparta, Helen`s husband vows to recover her no matter the cost. So begins the Trojan War. From far and wide the ancient...
| Author | Jacques Tardi |
| ISBN | 1606994352 |
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| Author | Will Eisner |
| ISBN | 1563896796 |
To the Heart of the Storm is Will Eisner’s memoir of growing up in Depression-era New York as well as a truncated bio of his maw and paw. It’s framed by a 25 year old Eisner looking out of a train window as he heads to war in 1942 looking back on his past.
I thought this one was fairly interesting....
| Author | Ande Parks |
| ISBN | 1932664297 |
Murder. Not an intricately plotted "whodunit" or fiery passionate fury. But dirty, sad, disturbing actions from real people. That's what Truman Capote decided to use for IN COLD BLOOD—his bold experiment in the realm of the non-fiction "novel." Following in that legacy is CAPOTE IN KANSAS, a fictionalized...
| Author | Stewart P. Evans |
| ISBN | 0786707682 |
This singular encyclopedic work offers the ultimate in Ripper resources. Solidly researched and profusely illustrated, collated from all the known official records and supplemented by contemporary press reports, it presents for the first time, in one volume, a prime-source reference book on...
| Author | Guy Davis |
| ISBN | 1596878029 |
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| ISBN | 0809095394 |
The history of SDS as you've never seen it before. In 1962, at a United Auto Workers' camp in Michigan, Students for a Democratic Society held its historic convention and prepared the famous Port Huron Statement, drafted by Tom Hayden. This statement, criticizing the U.S. government's failure to pursue...
| Author | Mark Waid |
| ISBN | 1931484481 |
In times of trouble, the city of Partington looks to its favorite son--the greatest detective ever known. But just who are Simon Archard and his lovely partner, Emma Bishop? This is the burning question behind each fantastic case solved by these stylish sleuths. In a world where a veneer of Victorian...
| Author | Jonathan Hennessey |
| ISBN | 0061969761 |
The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation is a full-color illustrated look at Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech, the bloody battle of the Civil War that prompted it, and how they led to a defining point in the history of America.
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| Author | Harold Schechter |
| ISBN | 0671014501 |
In an era that produced some of the most vicious female sociopaths in American history, Jane Toppan would become the most notorious of them all.
AN ANGEL OF MERCY
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| Author | Martin Fido |
| ISBN | 0747255229 |
Compiled in encyclopedic format by three of the world's leading experts on the subject, this new edition of The Jack the Ripper A-Z is completely revised and updated to reveal all the latest research. Giving fresh and unbiased accounts of all the many theories as to the Ripper's identity, it includes:
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| Author | Vittorio Giardino |
| ISBN | 1561631809 |
Μία ακόμα καλή δουλειά από τον πάντα ποιοτικό Giardino. Η σειρά Jonas Fink δημιουργήθηκε στην δύση της καριέρας του και διακρίνονται τα σημάδια κούρασης στο σχέδιο,...
| Author | Scott Chantler |
| ISBN | 0771019580 |
A beautifully illustrated and poignant graphic memoir that tells the story of World War II from an Everyman's perspective.
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| Author | Jordan Mechner |
| ISBN | 1596433930 |
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
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A brand-new ongoing series from the acclaimed bestselling creative team of Old Man Logan and Green Arrow! The lives of a reclusive young man obsessed with a conspiracy in the city’s trash, and a washed-up Catholic priest arriving in a small town full of dark secrets, become intertwined around the...
| Author | Paul Begg |
| ISBN | 1861056877 |
Using contemporary documents, police files, Home Office papers and newspaper reports, Jack the Ripper: The Facts recreates the notorious crimes and police investigation of 1888 to provide the best available overview of the 'Great Victorian Mystery', the greatest unsolved, true crime story of...
| Author | Valentine Penrose |
| ISBN | 1840680563 |
Descended from one of the most ancient aristocratic families of Europe, Erzsebet Bathory bore the psychotic aberrations of centuries of intermarriage. From adolescence she indulged in sadistic lesbian fantasies, where only the spilling of a woman's blood could satisfy her urges. By middle age,...
