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WINNER - BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015, Jack the Ripper Conference, Nottingham, England. Will Jack the Ripper ever be identified? The answer is an emphatic "No. " But not because he was a quasi-supernatural entity able to perform lightning-fast kerb-side surgery whilst running split-second rings around two London police forces. Jack the Ripper did not exist - except within the minds of his creators and those who for one reason or another have attempted for over one hundred years to turn the myth into a reality. In 1976 Simon Daryl Wood revealed Stephen Knight's hugely popular Royal Conspiracy to be a farrago of nonsense, and since then has written extensively on the Whitechapel Murders. "Deconstructing Jack: The Secret History of the Whitechapel Murders, " the result of over twenty years' research, casts a sceptical eye over the continuous stream of lies, invention, misinformation, self-publicity and opportunism which has kept this Victorian bogeyman alive in the darkest reaches of our 21st Century imaginations.
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Simon Daryl Wood was born in England, and is now a resident of California. He is primarily a writer of non-fiction history, with a number of articles about the 1888 Whitechapel murders published in specialist journals, and is currently working on a book about the 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion. Simon's finely-tuned appreciation for the absurd led to the writing of Fairy Story, a fantasy adventure for children and grown-ups inspired by recent events on Wall Street and the ensuing culture of greed which appears to be characterizing the 21st Century. Simon can be reached at simondwoodcontact@gmail.com
