The Ripper Code by Nabil Shabam

[diegan20]

I found this book on AMAZON.CO.UK by I could not find any additional information. Anybody knows something about it? Is it fiction or factual?
Here is a link to the book:

http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0954829425

Thank you in advance

Gian MARINONI
San Diego (CA)

[jmenges]

It's a novel about a disabled civil-servant who is also a sex addict, frequenter of prostitutes, who believes he has discovered the identity of 'Jack the Ripper' through a secret code.

JM

[diegan20]

Thanks

Thanks JM

Gian MARINONI

[Steve Thoroughgood]

I've just seen this, so apologies for resurrecting an old thread.

I'd just like to mention that Nabil Shaban (note correct spelling) is a severely disabled actor who twice played a character called Sil (to great acclaim) in 'Dr. Who' during the mid 1980s, Colin Baker era.

Thought someone might like to know this!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0787048/otherworks

Steve

[Mike Covell]

I've just seen this, so apologies for resurrecting an old thread.

I'd just like to mention that Nabil Shaban (note correct spelling) is a severely disabled actor who twice played a character called Sil (to great acclaim) in 'Dr. Who' during the mid 1980s, Colin Baker era.

Thought someone might like to know this!

Steve

Excellent piece of trivia!

[George Hutchinson]

Want to come full circle?

Nabil Shaban used to live very close to where I was brought up.

When I was 18 I was manager of a video rental store (yep, 18 was too young to have any responsibility and I didn't do a good job) and Nabil came in and I filled in his membership application. He's a legend.

PHILIP

[Celesta]

It's a novel about a disabled civil-servant who is also a sex addict, frequenter of prostitutes, who believes he has discovered the identity of 'Jack the Ripper' through a secret code.

JM

Is it worth reading, Jonathon?

[Mike Covell]

Want to come full circle?

Nabil Shaban used to live very close to where I was brought up.

When I was 18 I was manager of a video rental store (yep, 18 was too young to have any responsibility and I didn't do a good job) and Nabil came in and I filled in his membership application. He's a legend.

PHILIP

When I was manager of a video store, keith Daddy came in a filled in an application form. He is a local legend running ghost walks, similar to what you do at Guildford Castle Philip

[The Good Michael]

Hold on! How could anything or anyone in a Dr. Who episode have great acclaim?

Mike

[Mike Covell]

Hold on! How could anything or anyone in a Dr. Who episode have great acclaim?

Mike

Billie Piper is doing well for herself

[The Good Michael]

Billie Piper is doing well for herself

Yes. Despite Dr. Who

[George Hutchinson]

I met Billie Piper too. Such a name-dropper (me). I was in the same episode of THE CANTERBURY TALES as her.

PHILIP

[Victor]

Yes. Despite Dr. Who

I dunno about that, she's made a small comeback this series!

[Mike Covell]

Plus she went on to critical aclaim in that call girl series!!

[CraigInTwinCities]

Hold on! How could anything or anyone in a Dr. Who episode have great acclaim?

Mike

Oh, hush you SF-naysayer, you! Doctor Who is one of Great Britain's most-loved SF exports!

I'd like to point out that our current Doctor was featured in a very nice role in HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE... Shooting was completed before he actually was cast as The Doctor.

And the late great novelist Douglas Adams got his start as a script supervisor/show runner on Doctor Who during Tom Baker's run... the tragically strike-shortened season, with the incomplete episode, Shada, which Adams himself wrote...