Newest Unscholarly Get Rich Quick JTR Book

[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...

[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]

Step forward, Jack "T" Ripper...

[Simon Wood]

Hi Claire,

I never use my middle in initial—"D".

Regards,

Simon

[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.

[claire]

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

[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.

[Robert]

Another torso killing, eh?

[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]

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

[claire]

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

[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 . . .