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PublisherSutton Publishing

ISBN-100750943297

ISBN-139780750943291

eBay Product ID (ePID)51433320

Product Key Features

Book TitleRipper Suspect : the Secret Lives of Montague Druitt

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCultural Heritage, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Murder / Serial Killers, Political, Historical, Military, Criminology

Publication Year2006

IllustratorYes

GenreTrue Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorD. J. Leighton

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal942.081092

SynopsisThis 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 NumberDA536