Newest Unscholarly Get Rich Quick JTR Book

[diana]

I just realized that Toulouse Lautrec was alive in 1888, actually age 24, alcoholic, and consorted with the kind of women who were the victims.

Actually all that is necessary for me to make a lot of money is to pick somebody like this who was:

1. alive at the time

2. famous

Then I can build up a bunch of coincidences,etc. get published and be rich (that is if his descendants don't sue me).

Lets see now . . .

[claire]

but so much more gratifying to write something good, no?

[Robert]

Diana, nice idea about Lautrec but the victims weren't found with their knees mutilated, so I feel that it falls short.

[Chris]

This rather reminds me of the John Dickson Carr novel in which the murderer was able to come and go unseen because
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he secretly had no legs...

[Robert]

Another torso killing, eh?

[Stewart P Evans]

Unscholarly

The word 'unscholarly' appears to be coming into vogue. You realise that there is only one scholarly Ripper author around - which means the rest are unscholarly.

[claire]

Note to readers: you can spot the scholarly types by their use of a middle initial

[Stewart P Evans]

Ploy

Note to readers: you can spot the scholarly types by their use of a middle initial

No, that's just a ploy to make us appear scholarly - real scholars realise that we are not.

[Simon Wood]

Hi Claire,

I never use my middle in initial—"D".

Regards,

Simon

[Sam Flynn]

Step forward, Jack "T" Ripper...

[claire]

heheh. Scholarly ambitions or not, I never could use my middle initial, since it would have meant my three initials would have spelled C-O-W.

Nice one, mum.

[Sam Flynn]

I never could use my middle initial, since it would have meant my three initials would have spelled C-O-W.

Niels Bohr had a remarkably similar inhibition...

[Pippin Joan]

Hey! I suggested Toulouse-Lautrec some time ago, as he seemed to fit the profile, except for how he managed to throttle them around the neck in order to render them senseless. I think he rather liked those poor ladies. Being 4'6" tall doesn't fit the descriptions.

I've always thought you could spot "scholarly" people by their use of colons in titles, e.g., Toulouse-Lautrec: A Ridiculous Theory.

[mariag]

Sorry, it couldn't have been Toulouse- Lautrec.

It would have taken him 8 hours to walk between Dutfields Yard and Mitre Square.

[Sam Flynn]

Hey! I suggested Toulouse-Lautrec some time ago, as he seemed to fit the profile, except... being 4'6" tall doesn't fit the descriptions.

If nothing else, he ought to have been on some sort of short-list.