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True Crime History

by Jan Bondeson

ย้อนกลับไปในสมัยวิกตอเรีย "บอย โจนส์" เด็กชายธรรมดาๆ คนหนึ่ง ได้สร้างความโกลาหลอลหม่านภายในพระราชวังบักกิ้งแฮม ด้วยการโผล่หน้ามาในวังบ่อยๆ โดยไม่ได้รับเชิญ กลายเป็นข่าวใหญ่โตไปทั่วเกาะอังกฤษ�"บอย โจนส์" สตอล์กเกอร์รุ่นเยาว์ ผู้ถูกจารึกชื่อในประวัติศาสตร์ กลายเป็นตำนานได้อย่างไร เขาเล็ดรอดผ่านระบบรักษาความปลอดภัย (ที่น่าจะเข้มงวด?) ของเหล่าทหารอารักขาเข้าไปในวังได้อย่างไร เขาเข้าไปป้วนเปี้ยนทำอะไรใกล้ๆ ห้ององค์ราชินี พระบรมมหาราชวังมีมาตรการจัดการอย่างไรกับเขา และจุดจบของ "บอย โจนส์" จะโลดโผนสักเพียงไหน ทุกอย่างรออยู่ในหนังสือเล่มนี้

Genres: History, Nonfiction, True Crime

292 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2010

About the author

Outside of his career in medicine, he has written several nonfiction books on a variety of topics, such as medical anomalies and unsolved murder mysteries.

Bondeson is the biographer of a predecessor of Jack the Ripper, the London Monster, who stabbed fifty women in the buttocks, of Edward 'the Boy' Jones, who stalked Queen Victoria and stole her underwear, and Greyfriars Bobby, a Scottish terrier who supposedly spent 14 years guarding his master's grave.

He is currently working as a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at the Cardiff University School of Medicine.


(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Kyrie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Everything you ever wanted to know about Edward Jones, stories based on his life, rumours about his life, other stalkers who have absolutely nothing to do with Edward Jones or Queen Victories, and more!

It would have made an interesting magazine article.

[Anastasia · Rating 1 out of 5]

This has some good information in it, and, the story of The Boy Jones, could, theoretically, be compelling, but the structure of the work is bizarre: it could do with some major editing. Parts of Jones' story are repetitive, we're missing pieces of biographical information that show up two chapters later. There are two chapters that don't seem to have much to do with Jones at all, but instead bulk up the length of the book, cutting Jones' story in half.

I'd skip this, and listen to the Hysterical History podcast about The Boy Jones instead.

[Gretchen · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5...This was not very well written due to the chronology being difficult to follow at the beginning. Furthermore, the title of the book is not apt because the author diverges in depth about stalkers other than the Boy Jones.

[Leah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lighthearted history with a side of modern relevance, with a cast seemingly out of a Dickens novel. Only real!

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great subject matter, however I wanted more research on what happened to him after prison.

[Penny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting story but the author is trying to make a lot out of not much information - lots of repetition.

[dejah_thoris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the best Bondeson book because it's so short and tries to extend itself slightly beyond its subject matter. An interesting bit of history though.

[emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

Where was this in ‘Victoria’? Ahaha, this guy was so confident and calm about all of his law-breaking. His philosophy was obviously well though out and seemed to believe he was “allowed” to walk in and out of the palace. I suppose it isn’t good that there are books written about stalkers (doesn’t bode well for the future, does it?), but as mentioned, the Boy Jones /is/ a part of England’s history.