The long and winding Parade 7 - More on old Jack

It's strange the way Jack the Ripper has entered popular culture - When my novel A Policeman's Lot is published next month, it will continue in a long tradition of fictional works based around the killings in 1888. Indeed the Ripper is seen in movies, comics, T-shirts and even action figures.

I kid you not - pictured is the Mcfarlane Jack The Ripper action figure. Notice the apron and the Gladstone bag - accessories every well dressed serial killer should never be without.

What is forgotten here is that the Ripper was responsible for a string of very brutal murders. Or was he? Was there even a Jack the Ripper as such? Was this lone killer an invention of the press at the time?

There have been many suspects put forward over the years - Montague John Druitt, an impoverished barrister with medical training was put forward by several respected authors, Stephen Knight in his book The Final Solution implicated the British royal family, Patricia Cornwell favoured painter Walter Sickert - the list could go on and on and would even include Lewis Carroll and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Next month Solstice Publishing will publish my novel, A Policeman's Lot - a story set in South Wales during the opening years of the twentieth century. And featuring both Buffalo Bill and Jack the Ripper.

It will also throw a new theory into the mix of what happened during the autumn of terror in 1888. A theory, new and unique, but based on extensive research into the murders.


Keep reading the Archive for news on A Policeman's Lot - the answers are coming soon!!!!