by Stewart P. Evans and Paul Gainey (1996)
The murder and mutilation of at least five prostitutes in the Whitechapel district of London in the fall of 1888 continues to fascinate students of true crime, largely because the perpetrator, Jack the Ripper, was never caught. The slayings have prompted dozens of books, and more than 100 identities for the killer have been suggested. The British authors?Evans is a police officer, Gainey a constabulary secretary?here argue that the killer was an American, a quack doctor named Francis Tumblety who at the time was suspected by Scotland Yard. Tumblety, a peddler of fake nostrums, had earlier been temporarily charged with complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. At the time of the Ripper murders, Tumblety, who was living in London and was out on bail for other charges, fled England and made his way back to the U.S., where he died in 1903. Evans and Gainey make a case as tenuous as most, theirs based on a contemporary letter written by the head of Scotland Yard's Special Branch, John Littlechild, who suspected Tumblety. Their book will interest only the most dedicated Ripperologists, who may also find merit in the grisly photos.
Bruce Robinson
A reinterpretation of the case of Jack the Ripper focuses on the "why" instead of the "who," theorizing that the residents of London society's finest homes created him as an outlet for their own hidden violent and taboo proclivities.
Carter Henderson
In Free Enterprise Moves East: Doing Business from Prague to Vladivostok, former Wall Street Journal London bureau chief and front-page editor Carter Henderson provides an auspicious firsthand account of the triumph of market economies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. As more than 400 million hungry consumers who need everything, especially peace, emerge from the wreckage of communism, Henderson alerts eager entrepreneurs, investors, corporate executives, management consultants or anyone simply concerned with foreign affairs to the opportunities and pitfalls for businesses of all sizes struggling to thrive in the new free markets of formerly communist countries. Between Prague and Vladivostok, he covers these markets from the vibrantly growing Czech, Hungarian, and Polish economies; through struggling Romania, Albania, and Bulgaria to the once agriculturally rich but now seriously troubled Ukraine; and on to Russia, mired in problems ranging from runaway crime to environmental ruin while its people labor to build a viable new capitalistic economy; further east to oil-rich Kazakhstan; and finally to economically devastated Georgia and its impoverished neighbors. Through dozens of personal and compelling stories from Henderson's recent travels throughout the region, Free Enterprise Moves East tells how entrepreneurs are changing the face of the former Eastern bloc countries.
Robert Moss
Fleeing London for the unexplored America of the mid-1700s, Shane Hardacre seeks out his kinsman Sir William Johnson, the king's Superintendent of Indians.
Theresa Le Flem
"1994, Cornwall. With the fishing industry in crisis it is becoming increasingly difficult to make ends meet in a small, coastal town. Christina's quiet beach cafe is losing money and her ruthless brother-in-law, Rene, is determined to close it down. Disabled since childhood, Christina is determined to maintain her family business but neither her mother nor her sister are interested in helping her. But when John Madison, a widowed and lonely local skipper, desperately seeks Christina's help with his young daughter she is both disturbed by and drawn to him. Who can save her beloved Sea Cafe? And when John asks her to take a risk, will her heart be torn in two?"--Publisher's description.