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The Five
- The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- Narrado por: Louise Brealey
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Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.
What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women.
For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, but it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness, and rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time - but their greatest misfortune was to be born a woman.
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- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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In 1888, five gruesome murders shocked the civilized public. A bloodthirsty killer was on the loose in the slums of London. The world was on the lookout for Jack the Ripper. Scotland Yard never found their man - or so they said publicly. The police knew the killer's identity but concealed it to save the ruling class from embarrassment. The Escape of Jack the Ripper reveals how British elites manipulated the public to protect one of their own. Through meticulous research, Jonathan Hainsworth and Christine Ward-Agius have uncovered the killer's identity.
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I needed a score card to keep up
- De Dianne en 03-27-22
De: Jonathan Hainsworth, y otros
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The Art of the English Murder
- From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide panic in the early 19th century, and the case of Frederick and Maria Manning, the suburban couple who were hanged after killing Maria's lover and burying him under their kitchen floor. Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism.
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Should Come With a Spoiler Alert
- De Jessica en 04-15-16
De: Lucy Worsley
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The Big Book of Espionage
- Big Book Series
- De: Otto Penzler
- Narrado por: Piper Goodeve, Daniel Thomas May, Alex Wyndham
- Duración: 47 h y 49 m
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Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler is back with a new anthology that has gathered the intel on the world's greatest secret agents, declassified here for the first time.
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What a great bunch of stories.
- De Kay en 01-15-22
De: Otto Penzler
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The Victorian City
- Everyday Life in Dickens' London
- De: Judith Flanders
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 16 h y 5 m
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Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail. From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities, and cruelties.
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UNFORTUNATLY DISAPPOINTED, IS NOT INTERESTING
- De Count B en 02-04-18
De: Judith Flanders
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Meeting Manson
- An Uneasy Journey into an All-American Nightmare
- De: Erik Hedegaard
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 2 h y 4 m
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Once upon a time Rolling Stone contributing editor Erik Hedegaard became the last mainstream media journalist to interview Charles Manson. But the story he wrote for RS in 2013 didn’t begin to capture the strange and lingering effect Manson would have on his life. Now, in this Audible Original, you’ll hear about the making of that story, including audio of the phone calls Hedegaard received from Manson on a regular basis, interviews he conducted with Los Angeles District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi, as well as conversations he had with Manson Family members.
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Personal,Real,Insightful
- De T.D.Willis en 09-02-20
De: Erik Hedegaard
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- The Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
- De: Kate Summerscale
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher.
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Tragic Murder at dawn of detective bureau
- De Kindle Customer en 08-20-14
De: Kate Summerscale
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The Night Stalker
- The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez
- De: Philip Carlo
- Narrado por: Tom Zingarelli
- Duración: 18 h y 29 m
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Decades after Richard Ramirez left 13 dead and paralyzed the city of Los Angeles, his name is still synonymous with fear, torture, and sadistic murder. Philip Carlo's classic The Night Stalker, based on years of meticulous research and extensive interviews with Ramirez, revealed the killer and his horrifying crimes to be even more chilling than anyone could have imagined. The story of Ramirez is a bizarre and spellbinding descent into the very heart of human evil.
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Another True Crime classic...! (yay)
- De POLLY POIZENDEM en 11-19-16
De: Philip Carlo
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Jack the Ripper and the Case for Scotland Yard's Prime Suspect
- De: Robert House, Roy Hazelwood - foreword
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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Dozens of theories have attempted to resolve the mystery of the identity of Jack the Ripper, the world's most famous serial killer. Ripperologist Robert House contends that we may have known the answer all along. The head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department at the time of the murders thought Aaron Kozminski was guilty, but he lacked the legal proof to convict him. By exploring Kozminski's life, Robert House here builds a strong circumstantial case against him.
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A restrained and humane account
- De Tad Davis en 01-08-13
De: Robert House, y otros
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The Mammoth Book of the Jack the Ripper
- De: Maxim Jakubowski
- Narrado por: Kris Dyer
- Duración: 19 h y 40 m
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This audiobook focuses on the countless theories that have been put forward with regard to the identity of the notorious Victorian serial killer and offers an extensive section presenting all the known facts in the case. It included 30 essays by the most famous, often controversial Ripperologists putting forward their own theories. It remains one of the few audiobooks to offer a series of alternative solutions to Jack the Ripper's identity and the truth behind the Whitechapel murders.
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Charmingly amateurish sniping
- De Buretto en 03-20-18
De: Maxim Jakubowski
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The Mountbattens
- The Lives and Loves of Dickie and Edwina Mountbatten
- De: Andrew Lownie
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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The intimate story of a unique marriage spanning the heights of British glamour and power that descends into infidelity, manipulation, and disaster through the heart of the 20th century.
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He oughta be ashamed!
- De Just Penelope en 04-17-22
De: Andrew Lownie
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The Whole Death Catalog
- A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 15 h y 17 m
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In the tradition of Mary Roach's best-selling Stiff and Jessica Mitford's classic expose The American Way of Death comes this meticulously researched and refreshingly irreverent look at death from acclaimed author Harold Schechter. With his trademark fearlessness and bracing sense of humor, Schechter digs deep into a wealth of sources to unearth a treasure trove of surprising facts, amusing anecdotes, practical information, and timeless wisdom about that undiscovered country to which we will all one day travel.
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Bathroom literature, not audible book material.
- De Evie M en 09-25-19
De: Harold Schechter
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The Axeman of New Orleans
- The True Story
- De: Miriam C. Davis
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer while two innocent men nearly paid for one of his crimes with their lives. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, collections of true crime, novels, a graphic novel, and the FX television series American Horror Story. But the real story of the Axeman of New Orleans has never been written - until now.
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Narrator Sabatier
- De Dawn en 10-10-21
De: Miriam C. Davis
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The Menendez Murders
- The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation
- De: Robert Rand
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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Married for 26 years, Jose and Kitty Menendez appeared to be a happy couple and proud parents. Twenty-one-year-old Lyle Menendez was enrolled at Princeton, where he was a star on the tennis team. Eighteen-year-old Erik Menendez had just graduated from Beverly Hills High and was about to start college at UCLA. The Menendezes appeared to be living the American dream. But it was all a façade.
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This book appears to be a work of fiction
- De Amazon Customer en 11-09-18
De: Robert Rand
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Five
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- MK
- 08-20-21
Excellent
This is the first time I’ve listened to an entire audio book and it was a great experience. First of all the book was great. Rubenhold brought to life the world of working class to poor women in late 1800s England, and specifically to the victims of Jack the Ripper. In this book we meet them as they were and understand the precarious position of women of their time. Also Louise Brealey’s voice and accent was perfect for this book and very easy to listen to.
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- Ethan Hackett
- 06-18-21
More Than Just Victims
The stories of the women who fell victim to Jack the Ripper are heart wrenching, emotional and important. This book tells their stories as people who deserve to be recognized as more than just the victims of a sensationalized murderer. Fans of 'true crime' stories, myself included, would benefit from remembering that killers end lives that had meaning before their interventions. A sobering and very important look at the worlds of these too often forgotten women.
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- Ana Garcia
- 02-14-21
A must read
This book is beautifully written and marvelous told. I've grown up on the story of Jack the Ripper and never in all my years of reading about the crimes have I ever come across so much information about the lives of these five women or the working poor in Victorian London. The conclusion is especially brutal to see how far we've come as a society and how far we still have to go in how women are thought of.
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- Newlawgirl
- 07-11-22
Interesting book on forgotten historical figures
Like most readers, I only knew about the five women that Jack the Ripper killed through the lens of the murderer himself. This book not only provides a more detailed picture of each of the victims but also of the society in which they lived. I found everything about this book fascinating and the narrator was perfect.
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- Jennifer Freese
- 11-22-22
Worth listening to
What a great background on all those women who unfortunately suffered at the hands of the Ripper. Most of the victims are known as just prostitutes rather than who each of the woman truly was. This book was recommended to me by a Heygo tour guide who does Ripper and tours of each of the 5 victims. I am glad I got to listen.
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- Jack Ruskin
- 12-05-22
An incredibly interesting and informative read
It surpassed my high expectations. Great background and insight. I learned a lot about life in Victorian England, particularly for poor woken.
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- heather kelm
- 02-07-23
The life of these women
I was in rapture with learning about the life of these five women. From birth to death without gory details. I found the story of these women to be very enlightening. I love that they did not focus on the killer.
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- Pamela M Foreman
- 09-04-23
Historically interest
I loved this book because I enjoy reading and learning about history as it can relate to stories. Thumbs up.
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- mamaThea
- 11-27-23
It’s about time we learned about these women
Thorough, empathetic, impressive story telling. These women were far more than the chalk outlines they had become.
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- Alicia
- 12-27-23
Must read for true crime fans
This is one of the best books I’ve ever read/listened to in terms of humanizing the victims and not glorifying a killer. The amount of research in this book is incredible. It offers a unique perspective on these five victims as well as life in the late 1800s. Anyone who says they are a fan of true crime absolutely should read this book.
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