Gyles Brandreth Jack the ripper: case closed

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• London. 1894. 'I am not a detective, chief constable.' 'No, but you are a poet, a freemason and a man of the world.
• All useful qualifications for the business in hand.' So says Police Chief Macnaghten to Oscar Wilde, in a Chelsea drawing room in the company of Arthur Conan Doyle.
• The business they are gathered to discuss is none other than the case of Jack the Ripper, the most notorious murderer in England.
• And thus the three men set out to solve one of the world's most famous mysteries the ultimate truth about the identity of Jack the Ripper.
• Case Closed is Arthur Conan Doyle's account of the events of 1894, the year of the return of Jack the Ripper.
• Based on Oscar Wilde's real-life friendship with Conan Doyle and the extraordinary but little-known fact that in 1894 the detective in charge of the Jack the Ripper investigations was Oscar Wilde's neighbour in Tite Street, Chelsea, this is a revelatory and gripping detective story, combining the intrigue of a classic murder mystery with a witty and compelling portrait of one of the greatest characters of the Victorian age.