Originally posted by emlodik
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Come on, people, help me out! How can I make my Ripper book more "glamourous..." I mean, is there a way to shove Mr. Carroll into the whole "Royal Conspiracy" story? 
Weeellll... You could claim that he was photographing prepubescent female members of the Royal family, and overheard something he shouldn't have. If I recall correctly, in later life, Lewis Carroll destroyed most of his photographs, and if that bears up, you can always smugly wave that one in the face of anyone who claims you're wrong. Of course you can't produce the photographs of little Princess CindyLou Whosit -- Carroll considerately destroyed your evidence! (Then work in a diary someplace, and Bob's your auntie's live-in lover.)
Almost any Ripper book I come across, no matter how good or bad, seems to follow me home. I have one that's so bad I've never managed to finish reading it, but it's irritated me so much that when I've tried, I've thrown it at the wall in disgust. The pages are falling out. (At the other end of the spectrum, you find my copy of Rumbelow, which also had pages coming out and had to be rebound -- I had carried it around and loved it literally to pieces. Hmm. Maybe that's actually what happened to Mary Kelly... )
I enjoyed PC's book the first time through. The second read-through, I started to notice things weren't quite right. And then I found out about Casebook existing, came here, read about her book, and it somehow managed to end up on the "fiction" end of my JTR shelf. I still maintain that it walked down there under its own power.
Personally, for wild speculation, I prefer film to books -- I'm certain that Amazon Women On The Moon got it right when it accused the Loch Ness Monster.
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