David Monaghan
Autor/a de Smiley’s Circus: A Guide to the Secret World of John Le Carré
Obres de David Monaghan
Jack the Ripper's Secret Confession: The Hidden Testimony of Britain's First Serial Killer (2010) 28 exemplars
"Emma" (New Casebooks S.) 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Monaghan, David Mark
- Data de naixement
- 1944-10-22
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Llocs de residència
- Stafford, England, UK
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - Educació
- University of Leeds (BA | 1966)
University of Leeds (MA | MPhil |1968)
University of Alberta (PhD | 1970) - Professions
- Jane Austen scholar
university professor - Organitzacions
- Canadian Association of University Teachers
Mount St. Vincent University - Premis i honors
- Fellow, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Agent
- Andrew Best (Curtis Brown Ltd)
Membres
Ressenyes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 10
- Membres
- 153
- Popularitat
- #136,480
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 21
- Llengües
- 1
Perhaps, somewhere in the eleven volume tome, more compelling evidence exists. The excerpts the authors chose to publish contain some of the most shocking and heinous sexual content many readers will ever encounter. Walter’s diary ranges in style from “letters to Penthouse” to detailed descriptions of criminal sexual deviance. That Walter is depraved is not in doubt; that Walter is Jack the Ripper is.
One thing the book does manage to convey is the shame of a social structure that allows such horrid crimes to occur. That so many are complicit in Walter’s licentiousness is hard to believe. That authorities ignore the plight of sexually enslaved women is disgraceful.
I love a good true crime where an author reveals the criminal through a series of facts tied together with a touch of innuendo and a few inferences. Unfortunately, in this book the innuendo is nothing more than lurid exposition and inferences giant leaps of faith.
Monaghan and Cawthorne fall far short of convincing me Walter is Jack the Ripper. For me, Jack the Ripper's Secret Confession was nothing more than a dirty book.… (més)