Technical Difficulties

If a person has read Donald Rumbelow's book on Jack the Ripper (variously published as The Complete Jack the Ripper and Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook), are there any other nonfiction Jack the Ripper books that one ought to read? I.e., has anything substantially new been said since Rumbelow? (And should I bother with anything pre-Rumbelow?)

Please note, I'm not asking what books about Jack the Ripper have been published since 1975; I can find that out for myself. I'm asking for recommendations about which, if any of them, to read.

So I'm reading Casey Tefertiller's Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend (John Wiley & Sons, 1997), about which I will have things to say in due course, and have reached the chapter on the Sharkey-Fitzsimmons fight, in which Tefertiller quotes George Whitwell Parsons, the indefatigable diarist of Tombstone. And there is something incontrovertibly wrong with this quote.

What Tefertiller says Parsons says is:

Wyatt Earp disliked because of awarding Fitzsimmons Sharkey exhibitions or physical culture symposium to latter on a claimed foul.
(Tefertiller 303, quoting Parsons' diary entry of December 17, 1896)

Given the reading I've been doing recently, I've seen a fair number of Parsons' diary entries quoted, and they are, even when elliptical, perfectly clear, straightforward, and comprehensible. So, either Parsons had a stroke on December 17 or Tefertiller's copy-editor did not copy-edit. There's an instance earlier in the book where Tefertiller describes Earp "languishing" over a meal (242), and that's the same sort of mistake, the sort I associate with spell-checkers run amok, that I think has happened here.

This isn't important, in any sense of the word--the context of the rest of the chapter tells me what "exhibitions or physical culture symposium" means--but, darn it, I want to know what Parsons wrote. So my question to the internet is: has anyone either (a.) come across this typo and done the research themselves; (b.) got easy access to Parsons' diary (which is not, insofar as I can tell, online anywhere) and can look up the entry for December 17, 1896, WITHOUT GOING OUT OF THEIR WAY MORE THAN THIS IS WORTH (i.e., not very much); or (c.) [as my parallel structure falls apart] know someone who would know?

Even if not, I feel better now that I've bitched about it.

I have a question which I just realized I don't know the answer to. It's spoilery for the first chapter of The Goblin Emperor--although it isn't anything that won't be equally evident from the dust jacket copy--so I shall put it behind a cut-tag.

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It's all very confusing. o.O

ETA: In fact, it's so confusing I've got it wrong. (Elves and goblins apparently do not follow the same laws of primogeniture that the English do.) My analogy doesn't work, which means I don't have a real world model to follow or not follow as the whim takes me. It's all down to whim.

Thank you very much to everyone who has helped unmuddle my muddle.

I'm rereading The Reluctant Widow and am wondering: does anyone have a good photo-reference for Bouncer? I know roughly what a Mastiff looks like, and by lurcher, I imagine Heyer most probably means a Greyhound-Collie cross, but I'm having a rather difficult time imagining how the three would go together. Aside from the part where Bouncer is clearly a Very Large Dog.

Since it seems unlikely that anyone out there actually has a Greyhound/Collie/Mastiff cross and has put pictures of same on the internet (although this is the internet and one never knows), speculation is also welcome!

Persons living in and/or familiar with Los Angeles:

If someone were to get out of a cab just past the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, on Vine going north:

(a.) can a person actually get out of a cab there?
(b.) what stars would that person be most likely to find themselves standing on in the middle of a very tense discussion? As in It's a good thing you skipped dinner tonight, or there'd be puke all over your shoes and Mortimer's shoes and [blank]'s star.

ETA:The same information for stopping on Vine just south of the intersection with Hollywood would even more greatly be appreciated.

A million million thank yous!