Horrific horrendous unspeakable The Whitechapel Murderer Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of East London in 1888 slaughtering prostitutes & bewildering the police who were hunting him. They never succeeded in apprehending him & to this day the mystery of his identity remains an enigma. But he did leave clues to his identity & numerous theories have been entertained throughout the one hundred & twenty years since he held Londons East End in his grip of terror. This book looks at the evidence left by the murderer & the reports & investigative papers which recorded the atrocities that the Ripper performed. It takes time to analyse the existing information & evaluate the letters sent to the police. It is the strongest & most powerful book ever written on the murders. It dispels a lot of myths attached to the Ripper & eliminates a lot of the previously conjectured perpetrators leaving only those who realistically could have been... Jack the Ripper. ...

There have been countless attempts to solve the brutal murders committed by Jack the Ripper more than a hundred years ago. It seems that almost everyone has their own theory & their own suspect ranging from the reasonably likely to the entirely preposterous. What this most famous of British criminal cases has always required is a professional eye to analyse with all the benefits of modern investigate techniques. Now that has been provided in the shape of the man most qualified to solve the case: former British murder squad detective Trevor Marriott. His long & arduous investigation dispels the rumours fantasies & urban legends which have for so long stalked through the shadowy world of this vile killer. The results are startling: for many years it has been accepted that Jack the Ripper killed only five but now it can be revealed that up to nine were victims. & most astonishing of all a new prime suspect never previously considered has emerged with evidence linking him not only to the Whitechapel cases but to murders all over the world. Jack the Ripper: the 21st Century Investigations" reveals the Rippers true identity at last & the fate that befell him." ...

Ripper Murders From Old Photographs is not a standard retelling of the story of the Whitechapel Murders but the tale of historically important photographs connected to the case discovered by the author in 2007. Half of the book deals with The Whitby Collection. This is a surviving series of 27 images taken by the amateur criminologist John Gordon Whitby in 1961. They show many of the murder locations & related streets as they looked at that time. The book will not only tell the known facts about the photographer but will
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- reproduce every one of the photographs along with modern comparison shots in colour. The second half of the book deals with an image that some have described as the most important photographic discovery in the Jack the Ripper case for quarter of a century. Before the discovery of a unique image purchased on e Bay for less than $5 no photographic image was known to exist of the murder location of supposed Ripper victim Elizabeth Stride. Not only will this book present the photograph to the world for the first time it will also discuss in detail the vast amount of research that has been undertaken to authenticate & date the image & with frequent reference to the photo album it came from will try to close in on identifying the photographer.

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In December 2003 the painter Jack Vettriano a coalminer's son met his parents off the train from Scotland on his way to collect an OBE. Over the last few years Vettriano has had a meteoric rise to fame
- emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields unknown & untutored he has become Scotland's most successful & controversial contemporary artist. Appearing on posters & cards mugs & umbrellas prints of his work outsell Van Gogh Dali & Monet & his paintings have been acquired by celebrities around the world. ' The Singing Butler' Britain's most reproduced painting fetched a record GBP744 800 at auction in April 2004. Vettriano's images have an often mysterious narrative & are a gateway to an alluring yet sinister world. Daylight scenes of heady optimism painted against backdrops of beaches & racetracks are counterbalanced by more disquieting canvases of complex night-time liaisons in bars & clubs bedrooms & ballrooms. Both sexes are clearly styled
- the men hard-edged & mysterious the women seductive & enigmatic. Yet beneath the confident posturing Vettriano recognizes our inherent human frailty that there is no victor in the struggle between duplicity & desire. Men & women are ultimately trapped by the machinations of intense love & passion with little control over their destiny. ' Jack Vettriano' presents about thirty new images as well as some recently surfaced works plus the best of the paintings previously published in ' Lovers & Other Strangers' & ' Fallen Angels' also by Pavilion. In March 2004 Melvin Bragg's The South Bank Show broadcast a programme dedicated to Jack entitled Jack Vettriano: The People's Painter. Now reissued in smaller user-friendly format.

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Jack is one of the UKs most popular & yet most controversial contemporary artists. His pictures sell for a record amount of money the paintings in his exhibitions are always sold out before the opening & The Singing Butler made history for being the most expensive painting by a Scottish living artist ever to be sold at auction. (And surely the same painting is one of the worlds most replicated fine art images?) Here for the first time we get up close & personal with Jack in the studio. We see how he works in his studios in Scotland London & Nice & we see how these locations influence his paintings. The book also

Includes:: brand new paintings never before seen. We analyse Jacks own cultural influences & the influences his work has come to have on popular culture in turn. With outstanding & revealing photography by Jillian Edelstein & a foreword from friend & fellow son of Fife author Ian Rankin this is a book to delight Jack Vettrianos fans.

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Two weeks before D-Day the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications -- but the building is heavily guarded & the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet a young British secret agent proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the Jackdaws & they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But unknown to Flick Rommel has assigned a brilliant ruthless Intelligence colonel Dieter Franck to crush the Resistance. & Dieter is on Flicks trail... From the master storyteller & best-selling author of Eye of the Needle & Code to Zero comes the new thriller set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War & crackling with suspense & action. Jackdaws is an irresistible novel of the Resistance & of love courage & revenge. ...

The behind-the-scenes story of the worlds most notorious & controversial video games company
- Rockstar Games. Jacked is the incredible
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The autobiography of former Surrey & England cricketer Robin Jackman; now a highly-regarded international cricket commentator working on South African television rated as one of the top commentators in the world. His life in cricket makes a fascinating story & encounters virtually all the cricketing greats of the modern era
- many of whom he played with or against. Ian Botham Viv Richards & Mike Procter are just three of those star names who feature. Jackmans first-class career spanned 17 years he took more than 1800 wickets & in 1981 was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year. Now admired for his expert analysis sense of humour & deep of the game these qualities shine through in his highly entertaining autobiography.
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Greg Jackson is the most accomplished & celebrated mixed martial arts coach in the world. In Jacksons Mixed Martial Arts" he brings you into his stable of fighters which

Includes:: UFC Welterweight Champion Georges Rush St. Pierre UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Rashad Evans UFC Light Heavyweight contender Keith Jardine & UFC Middleweight contender Nate Marquardt. For the first time he unveils his methods for developing fight strategies detailing everything you must accomplish from the moment you sign the contract up to the time you step foot into the octagon. Next he shares his arsenal of st&-up striking techniques that allow his fighters to dominate the world of mixed martial arts. He shares dozens of striking combinations counter striking combinations takedowns & throws. If your goal is to rise to the top of the MMA mountain " Jacksons Mixed Martial Arts" is a mandatory tool."

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This handy-sized guide is drawn from the extensively revised edition of Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks of England Scotland & Ireland published by the Antique Collectors' Club in 1989. Ever since its publication in 1905 English Goldsmiths & Their Marks or Jackson's has been the 'bible' for scholars dealers & collectors selling in hundreds of thousands. The Antique Collectors' Club revised edition contains Approx. 15 000 marks with over 10 000 corrections to the second edition published in 1921. This pocket edition contains complete cycles of silver marks for all the important Assay Offices with variations shown for gold platinum Britannia Standard import marks etc. & has been updated to 1991 to include current assay marks. The Pocket Edition of Jackson's Hallmarks contains 1 000 makers' marks listed alphabetically by mark with comments as to rarity value & the speciality of the maker (e.g. spoons) making it the best available pocket guide to hallmarks. Other small guides to hallmarks based on outdated information have been rendered obsolete by this pocket edition which is the most accurate complete & up to date guide on the market. ...