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The Bell Tower
The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco
by Robert Graysmith
ISBN: 0895263246
ISBN-13: 9780895263247
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Perseus Distribution Services
Published date: 1999
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 2 pounds
Pages: 552
Publisher's Notes
The year is 1896: The Jack the Ripper murders stop as mysteriously as they started. Five years later, in a San Francisco church, brutally murdered priests, choirboys,and parishioners begin to appear. The pastor, an English priest, bears an uncanny resemblance to the one eyewitness report of the sole survivor of a Jack the Ripper attack in London years earlier. But another man has already been arrested, tried, and convicted for the San Francisco slayings....
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The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco
Graysmith, Robert
Washington: Regnery Publishing Co., 1999. Ex-library with usual markings and labels. Dust jacket in plastic sleeve, glued to end papers.. 1st Printing. Hard Cover (x-library). Very Good/DJ Very Good. Thick Large Octavo. ( more information) Offered by Browse Awhile Books (United States)
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The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco
Graysmith, Robert
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company, 1999. 552 Pages. Remainder mark on bottom page edges. Very small spince cock. Tight clean pages with no marks or stamps. DThe true Jackk the Ripper revealed by the investigator who identified the Zodiac killer. San Francisco' s Emmanuel Baptist church was built amid the hollows, odd lights, and drifting fog of what had been a burial ground. Rumors of ghosts and orgies swirl around the church. Worse is the repeated, brutal fact of suicide and murder. the church's first pastor seveered his own throat with a straight razor, the second pastor shot himself, the third murdered the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle. the fourt pastor is Jack Gibson, formerly of Glasgow and london, who left Britian for reasons as mysterious as the deep wounds on his neck. He bears an uncanny resemblance to the one eyewitness description of Jack the Ripper. After Paston Jack takes over the church, two bealutiful choir girls are found dead in its creaking bell tower: Minnie Williams, stabbed and crucified, and Blance Lamont, horribly strangled, her nude body arranged as though in prayer. The immediate suspect is not the pastor, but a young mediclal student with keys to the bell tower. And pastor Jack is only too ready to testify against his own parishioner. Fifty-two chapters plus Epilogue, Appendix A, Description of the Ripper and hIs Accomplice, Appendix B, Postscript, and Bibliography. First Printing. Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Graysmith, Robert - Cover Illustrations. 6" x 9". ( more information) Offered by Dons Bookstore (United States)
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The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack The Ripper Finally Solved...In San Francisco
Graysmith, Robert
Washington: Regnery, 1999. VG/VG. First edition, first printing in protected d/w not price clipped. Illustrated with drawings, maps and diagrams. 552pp. A well-researched true crime book which links murders in San Francisco with the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper. With Appendices and Bibliography. HEAVY PLEASE CONTACT US ABOUT POSTAGE. WILL BE KEPT AT COST.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ( more information) Offered by Greystone Books (United Kingdom)
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