A question!

[HelenaWojtczak]

I have a question. Do works of fiction written about Jack the Ripper outnumber works of non-fiction?

[GUT]

G'day Helana

I have a question. Do works of fiction written about Jack the Ripper outnumber works of non-fiction?

Just did a quick search on library catalogue and it looks like fiction, just

[Lechmere]

How do you define a work of fiction in Ripperology?

[GUT]

G'day Lechmere

I wondered the same thing, but ended up just taking the library's classifications, there are however a number of non-fiction that in my opinion should be in fiction.

[HelenaWojtczak]

How do you define a work of fiction in Ripperology?

Haha yes, very sharp. I didn't think of THAT interpretation of my question when I dashed it off without really thinking it through.

But on reflection, you have a good point and I am thinking, would I class R. Michael Gordon's four books on Chapman as fiction or non fiction?

(BTW did I tell anyone, I have discovered he is a Californian dentist? He even has a Facebook page.)

Helena

[Lechmere]

Who? Chapman?

[HelenaWojtczak]

Who? Chapman?

Gordon.

[John Wheat]

But on reflection, you have a good point and I am thinking, would I class R. Michael Gordon's four books on Chapman as fiction or non fiction?

To Helena

I have only read one of R. Michael Gordon's books The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London but it could be viewed as fiction. His claim that Chapman was Jack the Ripper and the Torso Killer is fanciful at best.

Cheers John

[Sam Flynn]

How do you define a work of fiction in Ripperology?

You look at the book's cover, and if it says "Non-Fiction", there's a 50% chance that it isn't

[Fisherman]

You look at the book's cover, and if it says "Non-Fiction", there's a 50% chance that it isn't

Of course - why did I not think of that!

You are at least fifty per cent serious, are you not?

The best,
Fisherman

[Mayerling]

Of course - why did I not think of that!

You are at least fifty per cent serious, are you not?

The best,
Fisherman

You can't even depend on that good old stand-by the bibliography. I have a book about the murders in Kansas in the 1870s by the Bender Family at their roadside inn. It is a novel. It has the best bibliography on that case I ever saw.

So, apparently did "Prince Jack" by Spierling. And that was supposed to be the book to prove Prince Eddy and James Stephen did the crimes.
Jeff