In 1890 a tobacconist in Philadelphia sent a letter to the great detective Sherlock Holmes asking if he could send him a copy of his monograph on tobacco ash. Whether or not the request was tongue, in cheek […]
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Before I get to the exciting part of naming the winner of the DVD I thought I’d say a little bit about the making of the DVD. The Man Who Murdered Sherlock Holmes was filmed in Edinburgh, London […]
Read ArticleOne of the locations that we feature on our walk is a corner of Mitre Square that has been given the nickname “murder corner.” Mitre Square was the location where the body of Catherine Eddowes, the fourth victim […]
Read ArticleOne of the strange aspects of the Jack the Ripper case is that the murders in the East End of London took place around the same time that the Sherlock Holmes stories were just beginning to capture the popular imagination. […]
Read ArticleOne of the strangest things I have come across in all my years of conducting Jack the Ripper walks is the number of people throughout the world who think that Jack the Ripper never actually existed. Now I […]
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