In The Whitechapel Murder Mystery which characters are real, and which fictional?
The narrator, John Howard Batchelor, was a real character. He was a Private Investigator who worked with Charles LeGrand, who was also a real character. However, very little information is available about John Batchelor, which enabled me to embellish his background and enlarge the role he played in the Ripper inquiry. In the novel everything he does is fictional, including the denouement at the end, which sprung from my over active imagination. The characters of Cullen Moffat and Uriah Garrett never existed in real life and everything they do is fictional. However, the two main police characters, Chief Inspector John George Littlechild and Executive Superintendent Charles Henry Cutbush, were real people who were very much involved in the Ripper investigation. As for the criminals, Tumblety, LeGrand, Lusk and Maybrick were, believe it or not, real characters who were, in one way or another, involved in the 1888 Ripper murders. And yes, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. As for th
