I agree completely with Steve's view of Sweeney Todd. He is most certainly a fictional character. As I may have mentioned when we discussed Todd before, I...
yes, i agree as well but i've never actually stated that Todd was true....only maybe. i too cant find anything and a trip to london would be a waste of time as...
he's almost alive; because i've explained as best i can how he could easily have existed..never mind, it's not too hard to change back.... does anybody have...
Hi Peter, In your search for Jack Sheppard did you locate copies of the Alexander Smith or Captain Johnson books? I'm still trying to confirm that Sawney Beane...
Hi all, Some Lloyd Authors and others from English Novels; By Malcolm Graham; The Robber Chief; or, The Foundling of the Forest. By the author of "The Black...
I noticed an upcoming title from Creation Books while I was digging around the net looking for some information recently. The book is called Tyburn Death Trip...
Dear All, Well, despite a few computer problems, I finally got around to finishing off this today. This is the complete contents of the first volume of Boys of...
Hi all, In the book Portrait of a Killer, Jack the Ripper, Case Closed by Patricia Cornwall, I found the following picture from one of the supposed Jack the...
Hi John, "Another curious thing is the Ripper letters "Ha, ha, ha's!" " I've always associated this with Harry Wharton & Co. in the Greyfriars stories by Frank...
Hi Steve, The Ripper letter in my scan is a dead-on copy of Fox's Sweeney Todd, I don't have an illustration to compare it to, but you can see it in Haining's...
The recent discussion references to Jack the Ripper reminded me of a curious dime novel item I've had for some time, which I thought might of referential use...
Hi Bill, A fascinating book by the sound of it. I wonder whether it has any relation to "The Whitechapel Murders; or, The mysteries of the East End" which...
Bill, You have to take the prize for finding the wierdest Ripper book I have ever heard of, an Indian princess mesmerist as the killer would be the last thing...
Hi, Steve -- The Purkiss Whitechapel Murders you mention may well have been as as wordy in its 48 pp as my Baird & Lee WM is in its 6" x 4" 180 pp. Depends on...
Hi, John -- And Tony Boucher used the name of the Chicago acid killer, H H Holmes, as a pen name for a good part of his fiction, notably for Rocket to the...
Hello, I have the reprint of the Purkess book, and although I have only read about the first 10 pp. or so, I don't think there is any connection to BB's weird...
Hi Bill, Oh, boy, do I wish I had the book. I could make a fortune on it and retire. Unfortunately, all I have is the information culled from the Bodleian...
Hi, Steve -- There seems to be a reprint edition around. Check ABE, giving Pinkerton as author and The Whitechapel Murders as title. Dealer has a copy at 25...
Hi Steve, I'm not that big a follower of true crime books either, they depress me no end, but I do like to read of murders that happened long ago, and the...
Hi Justin, Does the reprint of the Purkess book include the name of an author or publisher for the new edition. I just did a quick search and there are a lot...
Hi John, You're right: the Ripper myth will never go away because it's now too long ago to be able to confirm to everyone's satisfaction who the Ripper really...
Hi all, I was looking up Jenny Diver on the internet when I found this site. Blueskins sister, Jane Blake suffered transportation for shoplifting 12 yards of...
Leon Lewis (1833-1920) Leon Lewis was an American dime novelist who worked for both Beadle & Adams and, in England, for Ralph Rollington on Our Boys' Paper and...
Hi all, Edward L. Wheeler was another one of those novelists with a red-hot pen and one of my personal favorites amongst dime novelists, his stories are well...
Hi all, In the back of an 1890 dime novel was a catalogue of Beadle's Dime Library consisting of 650 titles which I photocopied. Among the titles was this one;...
Hi all, This is not meant to be taken as a proof, it could be another one of those Big Coincidences, but Puck in the 1870's ran a regular column entitled...
Hi John, Leon Lewis was actually a pen-name for Julius Warren Lewis who came over to the UK following the death of his wife, Harriet, for a while (1880-84)...
Hi all, This is all I know right now about Colonel Monstery. By Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery, "Champion-at-arms of North and South America."1824-1902. Iron...
