"Jack the Ripper" might have been a woman

[RoryN]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/47379180/ns/today-books/

Not posting the story about the new book. I only made this thread so that renard_ruse, LJ_Reloaded, JAMESBJOHNSON and other women haters couldn't make it first.

 

[Frizzle_Fry]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/47379180/ns/today-books/

Not posting the story about the new book. I only made this thread so that renard_ruse, LJ_Reloaded, JAMESBJOHNSON and other women haters couldn't make it first.

Made me laugh...though the book does toss out an interesting and compelling theory on one of the greatest homicide mysteries ever, might have to pick that one up.

 

[RoryN]

Made me laugh...though the book does toss out an interesting and compelling theory on one of the greatest homicide mysteries ever, might have to pick that one up.

It does look interesting. It'll probably go in my Kindle queue.

 

[KRCummings]

The Jack the Ripper stuff bores me because it's unsolvable. A mystery that can't be solved isn't any fun.

 

[RoryN]

A mystery that can't be solved isn't any fun.

...and yet you seem to love the Bible. Irony.

 

[KingOrfeo]

What an innocent time it was, when a serial killer could build such an immortal reputation on just five victims!

 

[RoryN]

What an innocent time it was, when a serial killer could build such an immortal reputation on just five victims!

The name helped. A lot.

 

[CHNOPS]

The Jack the Ripper stuff bores me because it's unsolvable. A mystery that can't be solved isn't any fun.

I heard someone interviewed about her Jack the Ripper book a couple of years ago. She named her book something incredibly hubristic like, "SOLVED! Jack The Ripper Definitively Identified!" The interviewer laughed as he read the title. Probably not the effect she was hoping for.

 

[KRCummings]

I heard someone interviewed about her Jack the Ripper book a couple of years ago. She named her book something incredibly hubristic like, "SOLVED! Jack The Ripper Definitively Identified!" The interviewer laughed as he read the title. Probably not the effect she was hoping for.

I think you're talking about Patricia Cornwell. She writes mysteries about a coroner, kinda like a female Quincy. Those books were decent enough but after her idiotic Ripper book came out I stopped reading her.

 

[RoryN]

I heard someone interviewed about her Jack the Ripper book a couple of years ago. She named her book something incredibly hubristic like, "SOLVED! Jack The Ripper Definitively Identified!" The interviewer laughed as he read the title. Probably not the effect she was hoping for.

Jack The Ripper Revealed: The Truth At Last?

The author of that book probably didn't care about the effect. It was just a marketing ploy to sell books.

EDIT: Oh. KR might have the right author...

 

[CHNOPS]

I think you're talking about Patricia Cornwell. She writes mysteries about a coroner, kinda like a female Quincy. Those books were decent enough but after her idiotic Ripper book came out I stopped reading her.

Exactly: "Case Closed." Uh, no.

 

[Farrah]

I think you're talking about Patricia Cornwell. She writes mysteries about a coroner, kinda like a female Quincy. Those books were decent enough but after her idiotic Ripper book came out I stopped reading her.

I liked that book.

And I'll love Scarpetta forevah.

 

[KRCummings]

I liked that book.

And I'll love Scarpetta forevah.

For all I know the Ripper book was great but I refused to read it and her arrogance over the whole thing totally turned me off. I enjoyed her Scarpetta books a lot but I've never been able to go back.

 

[Farrah]

For all I know the Ripper book was great but I refused to read it and her arrogance over the whole thing totally turned me off. I enjoyed her Scarpetta books a lot but I've never been able to go back.

I did begin to lose a little faith in her when she had Marino attack Scarpetta.

As for her book on Jack the Ripper...she could be totally off-base, but she sold her theory well. Her version of proof was chilling.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The name helped. A lot.

Seems commonplace now for a serial killer to have a media-name . . . But JTR was the first, AFAIK. (Anyone know an older example?)