Hello from Colorado

[Pcdunn]

Hi, I have just been approved to the Casebook Forums. I've been interested in Victorian London since reading my first Sherlock Holmes story at the age of ten. I love puzzles, mysteries, fiction, research, and librarianship. I've read a bit on the Ripper cases and watched any documentaries which come on television over here.
I write fan fiction, and my co-author and I wrote a published story some years ago in which we borrowed Mr. Stevenson's character "Mr. Hyde" to be our Jack the Ripper.
My interest in the case was recently recharged when I read Moore and Campbell's graphic novel "From Hell: being a melodrama in sixteen parts", and I soon found this site.
I have browsed a lot among the articles and threads here, and am happy to join the posters! Hope to learn a lot and enrich my life.

[pinkmoon]

Greetings my friend and welcome it's all one big happy family on here we all get on and no one disagrees within any one p.s don't mention the shawl.

[Amanda]

Hello....

Hi PC Dunn,
Welcome. You'll have a blast on here.

Pinkmoon has a valid point about the shawl. Other topics to avoid are:

Black Jelly Beans, Digging holes with spoons and D.N.A.

Also, best not to read any books that claim 'Case Solved' or you'll never hear the end of it.

Amanda

[pinkmoon]

case closed

You are only allowed to claim case closed if you have made up the facts to support your story.

[Pcdunn]

Thank you all very much for the welcomes and advice. I haven't read any of the newer "case solved" books, so I'm safe there. The idea that Charles "Lewis Carroll" Dodgson was a serial killer is perhaps the most absurd theory I've read about here. (I haven't read so much nonsense about anagrams since reading an excellent book on the Shakespeare authorship controversy a few years ago.)
All right, that's one suspect eliminated-- now on to the others!

[Robert]

Welcome PC Dunn. I hope you have a great time on here.

[barnflatwyngarde]

Welcome Pcdunn,
I am sure you will enjoy your time on the boards.
I am quite new to this myself, but they seem a friendly enough bunch.

If you keep in mind the words of Dr "Bones" McCoy in Star Trek, you'll be fine.

"It's life Jim, but not as we know it".

[Ginger]

Hello there, PC Dunn!

[barnflatwyngarde]

You are only allowed to claim case closed if you have made up the facts to support your story.

Ha Ha!
I like this.

Very, very true!

[Steadmund Brand]

Hi PC Dunn,
Welcome. You'll have a blast on here.

Pinkmoon has a valid point about the shawl. Other topics to avoid are:

Black Jelly Beans, Digging holes with spoons and D.N.A.

Also, best not to read any books that claim 'Case Solved' or you'll never hear the end of it.

Amanda

Hey.. what's wrong with Black Jelly Beans!!! (the answer is nothing.. they are perfect!!!) I'm still in training.. I will win gold for the U.S.A!!! ( new Olympic event we want.. sitting around in your underwear watching sports eating black jelly beans...see what you walked in on Pcdunn!! )

I also would like to welcome you to this little dysfunctional family 

Steadmund Brand

[Cogidubnus]

Welcome Pcdunn...hope your time here is as productive as mine has been so far...as you'll have gathered, there is a light-hearted side to things as well as solid research/debate...

[Pcdunn]

Welcome Pcdunn...hope your time here is as productive as mine has been so far...as you'll have gathered, there is a light-hearted side to things as well as solid research/debate...

Thank you for the welcome. I've slogged through 55 pages of the shawl DNA thread, and I see why the escape committe was formed

[lynn cates]

welcome

Hello PC. Welcome to the boards.

Good luck with your research.

Cheers.
LC

[louisa]

Welcome to the forum, PcDunn. I also have a bit of a fascination with Victorian London. I was born in London (and have lived there all my life) so maybe that's why I'm more interested in hearing about what it was like back then.

You'll find a lot to read on here.

[pinkmoon]

I thought I said not to mention the shawl