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Review "A most original piece of scholarship." —Robin Odell, author, Ripperology About the Author Thomas Toughill has labored in a whisky distillery, been an intelligence officer in Hong Kong, and been a bodyguard for Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. He is the author of Oscar Slater: The Immortal Case of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Thomas Toughill applies his detective skills to one of the greatest mysteries, the identity of Jack the Ripper. The result is a book which is as original as it is enthralling. Toughill suggests that Jack the Ripper was a former "friend" of Oscar Wilde and that Wilde dropped hints about this in several of his works, most notably The Picture of Dorian Gray, which Wilde wrote in 1889, the year after the Ripper murders took place. In fascinating detail, the author argues that Wilde's story, that of a privileged man whose life of vice in the East End of London turns him into a murderer, is in fact a coded message about the Ripper's identity. The Ripper Code is not just a fascinating voyage through the writings of Oscar Wilde , however; it is also a striking example of original detective work. Here, as in his previous books, Toughill unveils stunning evidence from a hitherto untapped source and uses it to devastating effect in arguing his case. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

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Review "A most original piece of scholarship." —Robin Odell, author, Ripperology About the Author Thomas Toughill has labored in a whisky distillery, been an intelligence officer in Hong Kong, and been a bodyguard for Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. He is the author of Oscar Slater: The Immortal Case of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Most helpful customer reviews 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. How "Bad" a Boy was Frank Miles? By Kevin Killian I read all of these books I'm ashamed to say, and each time round I'm convinced anew that whoever the writer proposes must be Jack the Ripper, but even I drew the line at Thomas Toughill's arguments about Frank Miles. In fact it might be Frank Miles, but in no way has Toughill proved a single link on what he evidently

conceives is an airtight chain of evidence proving Miles the Ripper. Step by step it's not convincing, though each piece of ""evidence"" is suggestive if nothing else, but after awhile you step back, just as you do with all these Ripper books, and you stop believing a single word. Okay, if Oscar Wilde confided in his great friend Mrs. Belloc Lowndes that his roommate/former lover Frank Miles was Jack the Ripper, why didn't she say so, instead of planting clues in her novel THE LODGER that might or might not point to Miles? Was she afraid of breaking a confidence, afraid of causing a scandal? Was she averse to selling more copies of her work? To believe that THE LODGER holds mysterious clues to Frank Miles being the Ripper on the word of Oscar Wilde is like believing that Bacon's essays hold cryptogrammatic proof that he wrote THE TEMPEST. Toughill is so dismissive of the case against any other suspect that one warms up to those cases as if rooting for an underdog. And his logic is ironclad, but silly. "It is inconceivable that Wilde and Miles could have consorted with Lord Ronald Gower without realising the sort of man he was, or even without themselves indulging in the very practices the aristocrat enjoyed so much." Does this make sense to you? If so, maybe you're a heterosexual detective and former Infantry Officer like Toughill, but you're not living in the real world. Wait till you hear him "prove" that Wilde was also the lover of Montague Druitt (another suspect in the Ripper murders), it's better than three pipes of opium. How about when Robert Sherard writes to Mrs. Belloc Lowndes praising her for writing THE LODGER? "Why should this man [Wilde's first biographer and an intimate friend] have felt the need to write to Belloc Lowndes after the publication of THE LODGER?" Well, maybe because he was a friend of hers? Isn't 'felt the need' pitching it a bit hot? Not for Toughill, who answers his own rhetorical question in italics: "Surely a convincing answer is that Sherard, like Mrs. Belloc Lowndes herself, knew Miles to be the Ripper and that he wrote to her praising what he recognized as a cleverly composed and well-disguised account of the truth." I part company with Toughill when I hear him speak the word 'truth,' but in other ways THE RIPPER CODE (love that title!) is entertaining and even enlightening, so I give it a 3. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. In the end, you get the point that Miles was nuts, maybe even a sexual deviant, but was he the Ripper? Most likely not. By Gene Rhea Tucker The first four sections of this book, up to page 157, are brilliant. Probably the best, most lucid, and interesting account of the scene, murders, and the evidence concerning the Ripper murders. Toughill gives several accounts of the evidence, sifts the evidence, goes through the theories, and even comes up with a pretty good general description of the killer and his mania. Then comes the last section, and it all goes to pot. Toughill claims that Jack the Ripper is one artist named Frank Miles, a one-time lover of Oscar Wilde. He then says Wilde dropped hints in his works, especially the short novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray." But the links he draws are circumstantial at best, just silly at worst. They are akin to those who listen to Beatles songs and come up with proofs that "Paul is dead, man." What, for instance, is Miles's motive? Is it because he broke-up with Wilde and went into obscurity or is it because Lily Langtry spurned him? On one page the Ripper is crazy because of advanced

syphilis and commits his crimes in the frenzy of passion, on another page he kills a woman because she reminded him of a character in a decadent French novel mentioned in "Dorian Gray"! In one section of the book, the Ripper is a weekend killer because he is probably busy with his normal life Monday through Friday, in another Miles is free to do as he pleases yet only kills on weekends? And the connections to "Dorian Gray"? According to Toughill Miles is the model for Basil Hallward, then the basis for Dorian, then Basil again. Which is it? In fact, large parts of the novel and characterizations are ignored to come up with these thin threads of evidence. In the end, you get the point that Miles was nuts, maybe even a sexual deviant, but was he the Ripper? Most likely not. Pity that the first few sections are brilliantly written, because they are unsourced. No footnotes, etc. There is a bibliography, and it is apparent that the author has done his homework, but he tries to shoehorn all the information to fit his pet theory and it falls flat. There is no index. So, if you have a passing fascination for Wilde or Jack the Ripper, buy the book if you can find it for $5. If you are a "Ripperologist," of course you'll want it. If it is being sold for more than $5, pass. 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Ripper Code By Sam Adams I've read a few books on Jack the Ripper, but not many; and the little reading I've done on the case has been done sporadically over thirty or so years. I've also seen a few of the movies, and at least one documentary. I first saw the gruesome photograph of Mary Kelly in the mid-1970s. My interest in the case is casual, and I have no opinion on the identity of Jack the Ripper. The Ripper killings occured in 1888. The Victorian era to the crimes, the period of Sherlock Holmes (introduced in 1887), gives the case an aura unlike a modern serial killing. Colin Wilson, I recall from my reading long ago, avers that Jack the Ripper represents a new kind of murderer in history. Thomas Toughill, in The Ripper Code, agrees. "The Ripper killings ... represented a new and, to contemporary minds, a deeply disturbing form of murder." (6) "[T]here is one factor which must not be lost sight of and that is the inability or perhaps refusal, of Victorians to recognise the Whitechapel murders for what they were, namely sex crimes. As mentioned earlier, people at the time could not understand why anyone would want to rip open a woman unless it was for a tangible, material reason such as the sale of organs mentioned by Coroner Baxter at the Chapman inquest." (111) In the first 156 pages, Toughill summarizes the facts and suspects in the case. After dismissing these suspects as unlikely or impossible, he begins to make his case for the Ripper being George Francis "Frank" Miles [1852-1891], a once famous artist and friend (likely lover) of Oscar Wilde. Toughill contends that Miles "was motivated by his break with Wilde and the resentment he felt at his failure in life; that Wilde came to learn that his friend was the Whitechapel murderer and dropped hints about it in several of his works, most notably, The Picture of Dorian Gray; that Miles, by then hopelessly insane, was not formally prosecuted in order to prevent an embarrassing affair concerning the Royal family from becoming public knowledge; and that Mcnaghten was somehow influenced by Wilde in his writing of his memorandum to the Home Office on the identity of Jack the Ripper." (161-62) Toughill maintains that Miles was not only bisexual but guilty of criminal sexual misconduct with underage girls, and that Wilde had on at least two occasions helped Miles avoid arrest for that.

(186-88) Miles' insanity at his death arose from syphilis. (159, 182, 188) Toughill suggests that Miles had gotten it from Wilde, who had gotten it, probably from a female prostitute, "while at Oxford or shortly afterwards", but had been cured through a mecury treatment. (182-3, 186) Miles met Wilde "sometime before the summer of 1876". (168) This is within the period when Wilde is suspected to have gotten syphilis, since Wilde left Oxford in 1878. (249) "However, the important fact here is that while Wilde recovered from the disease, Miles did not." (186) In 1881 there was a permanent break in the friendship between the two men. (171) Miles' popularity and success as an artist declined, and in 1884 both his parents died and Wilde got married. (179, 229) In December of 1887, Miles was admitted to Brislington asylum "the day after the woman known only as 'Fairy Fay' was reportedly murdered." (189, 266) This woman is considered by some researchers to have been an early victim of Jack the Ripper. (13) Although Frank Miles died in July 1891, in March 1888 there were two published notices of his death, which were never retracted. (180-1, 189) Mary Ann Nichols, the Ripper's first official victim, was murdered in August that year. (15) Toughill remarks that since Miles, a well-known artist guilty of sex crimes against children, had been reported dead, he would have been outside the purview of the investigators. (190) Nothing at this point proves nor even suggests that Frank Miles was Jack the Ripper. There is not even circumstantial evidence of his guilt, since bisexuality and sexual crimes against young girls doesn't provide a basis to infer violent sexual mutilation of adult female prostitutes. Toughill makes his case via Oscar Wilde, Marie Belloc Lowndes (author of the 1913 Ripper novel The Lodger), Lilly Langtry (a celebrated beauty and actress), and Mary Kelly (the Ripper's final victim). Marie Belloc Lowndes knew Oscar Wilde initially through her mother's friendship with his parents in 1860. (193) Toughill reads her novel The Lodger as being written with inside information. He sees evidence in the book that the author knew and was hinting that Frank Miles was Jack the Ripper. (193-97) Later in The Ripper Code he finds similar apparent evidence of Miles' guilt in the writings of Oscar Wilde himself. Lilly Langtry was good friends with Miles and Wilde and had become famous partly through drawings which Miles, who was renowned for drawing the faces of pretty women of the era, had done of her. Although Langtry was married, she had had an affair with Prince Louis of Battenberg (following an affair with Edward, the Prince of Wales) and become pregnant. (166, 172, 260) Scandal was avoided by a discreet pregancy and birth (a daughter) in early 1881 and passing herself off as the child's aunt while Langtry's mother raised it. (172, 198) Langtry's husband had become bankrupt in 1880, and Langtry consulted with Wilde and others on how to overcome her financial troubles. As a result she became a stage actress, with her first performance in December of 1881. It was while she was preparing for this role that Miles and Wilde quarrelled and separated. Later that December, Wilde, having already made plans before his separation with Miles, left England on an invited trip to America. (172-75) The potential scandal of this illegitimate child of the Prince of Battenburg and Lilly Langtry plays a part in Toughill's argument for Miles' identity as Jack the Ripper. The connection is made through Mary Kelly. Toughill raises the question of whether Frank Miles and Mary Kelly may have known one another. Both Miles and Kelly were from Wales, and Kelly grew up "not far from where Miles' father was a major landowner and Miles did most of his serious work." (201) When Mary Kelly moved to London in 1884, it may have been Miles who helped her when she got there. (76, 201) She may in fact,

Toughill speculates, have been a model for Miles the artist, and perhaps the "cheap print" in her room, where she was murdered and mutilated, was of her. The Ripper drapped pieces of Mary's flesh upon it. The picture was called "The Fisherman's Widow", and nobody now knows what it looked like. (202) Kelly had spoken of having "travelled to France with a gentelman" after moving to London. She "liked to be called Marie Jeannette" and "was buried under that name." (76) Toughill speculates that the gentleman was Frank Miles and that he encouraged Mary's Frenchified name. (202) Lilly Langtry's illegitimate daughter with Prince Louis was named 'Jeanne-Marie', and Toughill believes this is significant to the Ripper case. He believes that an investigation into Mary Kelly's murder threatened the Royal family and because of that there was a coverup. Prior to her affair with Prince Louis, Langtry had had an affair with Edward, the Prince of Wales; and Mary Kelly was murdered on Edward's birthday. A prosecution of Frank Miles would have uncovered Miles' prior relation with Mary Kelly, Toughill believes, and thereby formed a link, through Kelly's use of 'Marie Jeannette' and Miles' well-known friendship with Lilly Langtry, to a scandalous exposure of Langtry's illegitimate daughter with Prince Louis of Battenberg, and perhaps her prior affair with Prince Edward. (202, 260) Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, begun in late 1889, was originally published in Lippincott's magazine in July 1890, then as a book with six new chapters and "many revisions and a preface which consisted of a list of epigrams" in April 1891. (203, 206) Frank Miles died July 1891. (181) It's worth mentioning here that the title of Toughill's book is 'The Ripper Code'. Only a composition can contain a code. A "code" in the sense Toughill seems to be using the idea is what is usually called a "veiled reference". Toughill believes he has discovered encoded information in the form of veiled references about Jack the Ripper and his true identity in the writings of Marie Belloc Lowndes and Oscar Wilde. (I should mention that I haven't read anything by either author.) What he sees as evidence is not going to be straighforward and conspicuous, and in fact cannot be anything but circumstantial. Toughill finds significance in references to a handbag or a Gladstone bag, for example. (221-22) He argues that Wilde included references to Masonic ideas in his works (both he and his father were Freemasons), and that 'Dorian' is a veiled reference to 'Doric' "the name of the Whitechapel Lodge (No. 9333)." (226) There is more, but it difficult to summarize succinctly. Toughill believes that "the underlying motive of Jack the Ripper" was "to wreak vengence on the society that had wronged and neglected him." (231) Why Jack, whoever he was, chose the sexual mutiliation and murder of impoverished, adult female prostitutes as a way to wreak this vengence upon society, Toughill doesn't offer to explain. Was this indeed the fundamental motive or was the driving force psycho-sexual? Toughill nowhere in this book explains why the Ripper did the specific things he did to these women; and nothing he claims to have uncovered in his investigation points to any answer. Hand waving at Freemasonry and the Scottish Rite is not enough. (225-26) Toughill speaks of Jack's vengence on society during a discussion of Joris-Karl Huysmans' [1884] Against the Grain (A Rebours), which influenced Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray. (229) He spends twelve pages discussing Against the Grain in relation to the Ripper case. Huysmans, of course, cannot be encoding information about the identity of the Ripper; but Toughill sees Dorian Gray as a coded story, and within Wilde's novel is the veiled reference (it's apparently mentioned only as "the poisonous book", but Wilde acknowledged the reference) to Huysmans' book. Toughill believes that the Ripper, and hence Miles (he contends), read Huysmans. (233, 237) Toughill indulges in

speculation here that is at times absurdly extravagant. It seems that Toughill's belief is that The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lightly veiled account of the descent into sexual murder by Frank Miles. Because Gray is obsessed with certain chapters in Against the Grain, Toughill believes that Miles was too. (240-41) Yet he gives no evidence that Wilde and Miles spoke to one another after their break in 1881, seven years before the Ripper killings. Montague Druitt is a prime Ripper suspect derived from Melville Mcnaghten's 1894 memorandum to the Home Office on the identity of Jack the Ripper, wherein Druitt is said to have drowned by suicide in the Thames about seven weeks after the murder of Mary Kelly. Mcnaghten believed Druitt was Jack the Ripper. (132, 134, 136) Druitt's father, like Wilde's, "was one of the leading medical figures of the mid-Victorian period." (248) Toughill contends that Montague Druitt was homosexual (Mcnaghten called him 'sexually insane') and that he and Oscar Wilde were lovers. (248, 251) Mcnaghten was influenced by Wilde, whom he knew, in the writing of his report. (241, 256) Questions that need to be asked about any serial killer are: (1) why did he *begin* killing when he did, (2) why did he kill *when* he did, (3) why did he kill *who* he did, (4) why did he kill *how* he did, (5) why did he *end* killing when he did? Authors who claim to discover the identity of Jack the Ripper need as clearly and as completely as possible to answer each of these questions. Toughill doesn't. See all 8 customer reviews...

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