Jack the Ripper, let's play a guessing game
Let’s play a game of ‘guess the author’ – who is a former European Monopoly champion and organised the first British Scrabble championship? He holds the record for the longest after-dinner speech at over 12 hours, got it yet? Ok, here’s more. He was an MP, he is chancellor of a British University, and president of the Oscar Wilde Society. More clues needed? He is an actor and broadcaster …. Gyles Brandreth. Of all the roles mentioned above (and the list is not exhaustive), the one that comes into play with this book is the presidency of the Oscar Wilde Society. Most crime books set in Victorian England are dark and creepy, more Dickens than Peter Pan. ‘Jack the Ripper – Case Closed’ is a departure from the traditional crime novel set in the 19 th century in that the emphasis is on real-life main protagonists Oscar Wilde and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and their friendship. Many of the supporting cast too are well known historical people, so that in effect you are taking a romp...