interest in true crime or in the Ripper?
Interest in true crime. When I was about 13 I realized that the public library contained a section that was more exciting than any fiction. I was in my 20s by the time this acquired Tom Cullen’s Autumn of Terror, which kicked off my interest in reading the previous (McCormick) and subsequent Ripper books as they appeared. While believing the Ripper mystery is as ‘solved’ as the present state of information allows, what remains intriguing to you? I should dearly like to see the recovery of two sets of documents (if they have survived). The Scotland Yard file/s on serious suspects, and the ‘very full diary’ that Dr Anderson said he kept at the time. The latter may well contain more preaching dates and Godbothering than useful matter on criminal affairs. The former may well prove that the police suspects were all as daft or inadequately based as Ostrog. But these are the crucial documents we need to go further forward along the only serious historical lines of enquiry directed toward iden
