'My Ripper hunting days', a Jack the Ripper novel I wrote

I've just finished writing my first novel which, I hope, will be published soon. It's titled 'My Ripper Hunting days'. Of course, we're talking about Jack the Ripper who viciously murdered five women in the eastern side of London in 1889. The East End was where the poor and miserable lived. Families would often live in a single room. The Ripper was a cleaver and well organized serial killer.

I've been working on this novel for years, and it required a lot of research to make sure references to streets, clothes, for example, were not only relevant, but historically correct.

The story goes a bit like this: When I was 14-15 years old, I found a well-preserved diary of a young man, Woodrow Reily, who worked at the London Hospital and was held at the Grosse-Isle quarantine station near Quebec City having caught typhus while crossing the Atlantic. He wrote how he met a man named Francis Tumblety, an actual Jack the Ripper suspect, and befriended him, but soon after becomes convinced this man is Jack the Ripper. The more evidence he gathers, the more he believes the East End murders may only be pieces of a larger puzzle in which Tumblety seems to be playing an important part. Will he get the whole picture and capture Tumblety the Ripper? Was he really hunting Tumblety, the Ripper or someone from his past, a dark past he even denies having gone through? You shall find out once you grab a copy of Reily's soon to be published diary, 'My Ripper Hunting days'.

Of course, I never found such a diary, but someone had to find it. So why not me? Then again, maybe I did actually find his diary. Anyway, I'll let you speculate. The story not only involves Francis Tumblety but also a couple of other well known persons such as Scotland Yard's Inspector Frederick Abberline, Whitechapel H-Division Sergeant William Thick, Vigilante Committee George Lusk and a well known crook named Le Grand. All reveal themselves a bit differently than we what we knew of them, and are often witty as Brits tend to be.

 The main character, Woodrow Reily had nothing to do with the Ripper case preferring one-way conversations between him and dead bodies of the pathological laboratory where he worked because "They don't talk back". Nevertheless, this ordinary and somewhat introverted guy pursues someone he believes is the Ripper and gets into a lot of trouble.

The difference in this story, compared to other JTR novels, is that we're not talking about police chasing the Ripper such as Allan Moore's 'In Hell' nor is it like Sphen Hunter's 'I, Ripper' where a journalist and the Ripper keep stalking each other. It's not a time-traveller Ripper story nor is it a Jack The Ripper against the Terminator kind of book.

I'll be back to share with you many aspects in this novel-writing experience of mine.