3:AM Top 5: A. Stevens
A. Stevens is the editor of 3:AM‘s first book anthology, The Edgier Waters (Snowbooks), which is now available in good bookshops throughout Britain, and worldwide via Amazon. To celebrate, here is his anthology-themed Top 5: 1. “My Friend Goo” — Sonic Youth 2. “Round Every Corner” — Thee Headcoats 3. “Into the Groove(y)” — Ciccone […]
Put Up or Shut Up
The police files on Jack the Stripper remain closed to the public, and yet Seabrook was granted access to them; which naturally raises the question as to why he was allowed to review this material. Among other things, it seems likely that the old bill did not like the ongoing speculation about the identity of Jack the Stripper, which for the past thirty-five years has tended to implicate serving or retired Met officers. Indeed, among the more recent theories to do the rounds was one to be found in Jimmy Evans and Martin Short’s book The Survivor (Mainstream, Edinburgh 2001), which named deceased top cop Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Butler as the nude murderer.
Stewart Home reviews David Seabrook‘s Jack of Jumps.