Ripper Suspect: The Secret Lives of Montague Druitt
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- ISBN
- 9780750943291
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Sutton Publishing
ISBN-10
0750943297
ISBN-13
9780750943291
eBay Product ID (ePID)
51433320
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ripper Suspect : the Secret Lives of Montague Druitt
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Murder / Serial Killers, Political, Historical, Military, Criminology
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
942.081092
Synopsis
This book weaves together the criminal, sporting, aristocratic and homosexual worlds of late nineteenth-century London in search of the truth behind Sir Melville Macnaughten's surprising allegations., One of the most popular of all Ripper suspects, Montague Druitt appears on the surface an unlikely killer. This book weaves together the criminal, sporting, aristocratic and homosexual worlds of late 19th-century London in search of the truth behind Sir Melville Macnaghten's surprising allegations., One of the most popular Ripper suspects, Montague Druitt appeared an unlikely killer. He was Oxford-educated and a keen cricketer. D. J. Leighton's book is a fascinating period piece., One of the most popular of all Ripper suspects, Montague Druitt appears on the surface an unlikely killer. Born into a comfortable bourgeois family, he was educated at New College, Oxford, qualified for the Bar and played cricket for a number of strong club sides. But, there was another side to the agreeable Mr Druitt. He moved in the artistic and aristocratic circles that overlapped with London's secretive homosexual culture, was summarily dismissed from his post at a boys' school, and a few weeks later was found drowned in the Thames, just months after the Jack the Ripper murders. Six years later, Chief Constable Sir Melville Macnaughten named Druitt as the murderer and gave the unhappy barrister a kind of immortality. D J Leighton has dug deep into the background to Druitt's unhappy life and uncovered a web of intriguing connections linking the eldest son of the heir to the throne, the Cambridge Apostles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Virginia Woolf and the cricketing legend Prince Kumar Ranjitsinhji. The book is a fascinating period piece that deftly weaves together the criminal, sporting, aristocratic and homosexual worlds of late nineteenth-century London, in search of the truth behind Macnaughten's surprising allegations. This book is an excellent piece of of period crime history with a Jack the Ripper setting. It is a colourful Victorian underworld story, mixing high society with scandal, the golden age of amateur cricket and murder. It is the authoritative debunking of the case for Druitt as Jack the Ripper. This book weaves together the criminal, sporting, aristocratic and homosexual worlds of late nineteenth-century London in search of the truth behind Sir Melville Macnaughten's surprising allegations.
LC Classification Number
DA536
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