Usually Amazon is quick for us--we pay for Prime because we're always ordering stuff, so it's usually 2-day shipping and occasionally next-day, which is nice. I'll order used books and whatnot which come from third-party sellers and take a while, but I expect that so it doesn't bother me. They did warn me that the basketball thing was out of stock at the moment, so I can't fault them on that even though SOME kind of indication (are we talking days? weeks?) would have been nice. Ah well, it's on the way now so that's good. :)
Yes, apparently there's a whole subculture of 'Ripperology,' people who study the Ripper phenomenon and history and posit theories about his identity. Mr. Robinson (author of the book I just read) shreds those people too, because they tend to accept as gospel the records and testimony of the police and courts of the time, and the point of Robinson's book is that none of that can be trusted because it was all manipulated to prevent the apprehension of the Ripper. And to my mind, he proves it pretty well. Critical evidence at the crime scenes overlooked, erased, or later disregarded. Witnesses who were never called to testify. Medical examiners changing their reports and testimony. All that sort of thing. Either the whole lot were totally incompetent (which can never be ruled out, of course) or they were actively scheming to create a mystery where there should have been none, and in effect encouraging the Ripper to keep killing. Quite chilling indeed, to think of it that way.
Yes, apparently there's a whole subculture of 'Ripperology,' people who study the Ripper phenomenon and history and posit theories about his identity. Mr. Robinson (author of the book I just read) shreds those people too, because they tend to accept as gospel the records and testimony of the police and courts of the time, and the point of Robinson's book is that none of that can be trusted because it was all manipulated to prevent the apprehension of the Ripper. And to my mind, he proves it pretty well. Critical evidence at the crime scenes overlooked, erased, or later disregarded. Witnesses who were never called to testify. Medical examiners changing their reports and testimony. All that sort of thing. Either the whole lot were totally incompetent (which can never be ruled out, of course) or they were actively scheming to create a mystery where there should have been none, and in effect encouraging the Ripper to keep killing. Quite chilling indeed, to think of it that way.
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