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The first attempt I made at writing fiction, it was intended to be a fictional retelling of the story of Jack the Ripper. I’ve always had a morbid fascination with true crime and Jack the Ripper in particular. I’ve discussed on the Blog Hop in the past about the struggles I had with this and that it continues to languish in the dust.
Since then, I’ve worked on steampunk novels, which touches on facets of the Victorian era. I’ve considered introducing a character based on another Victorian London figure, Spring-heeled Jack, so there’s no reason why the Ripper can’t put in a showing. That said, I’ve never entirely shunned the idea of returning to a historical fiction novel around the story of Jack. Now I think about it, maybe there’s a story to be written for him in a steampunk universe…
Steven Smith 
I’m a fine one to comment, with all my unfinished work, but I’d love to read a Steampunk/Jack the Ripper Mashup.
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Steampunk Jack meets bionic Crow from the end of book two – oh dear, here come the ideas…
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oh steampunk Jack would be cool!
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Agreed! Think I might need to do some research into how I might make him work in my world.
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Did you ever see that TV programme where a man researched Jack the Ripper for 30 years and finally realised who he was?
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Didn’t see that show. (but I don’t watch TV.) I hope they didn’t drag it out so far it became boring. So, tell us, who was Jack The Ripper?
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there ya go! Let that percolate! Something is there.
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there ya go! Let that percolate! Something is there.
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