text: Select the gender for your main character.
  
  YOUR HEALTH: 100%
  
  > Female
  Select the first letter in your character's name.
  
  YOUR HEALTH: 100%[Themes: mystery / thriller, serious, true story]
  
  You are a Private Detective living in Victorian London.
  
  Crimes are common and you are frequently called upon to assist the policemen in Scotland Yard. You have been a Detective for a few years now and by combining hard work with intelligence you have had a few successes in uncovering the information that has enabled the Police to arrest wanted criminals. This has earned you a good Reputation but you must be careful not to lose it: if you do Scotland Yard will no longer trust you to help them.
  
  One evening you are at home when Commissioner James Monro, an experienced Policeman, visits you.
  
  "We would like your help again," he tells you. "A lunatic murderer called James Kelly escaped from
  
  Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane ten days ago. My detectives have investigated and found no trace of him. Perhaps if you look into the case you might be able to find something?"
  
  What do you do?
  
  [Author's Note: "Jack the Ripper is dead / Jack the Ripper is dead / He's lying on his bed / Bleeding through his head / Jack the Ripper is dead" - A Victorian Children's Skipping Rope Song. Death stalks the fog-shrouded streets of London as prostitutes are killed and mutilated in the darkness of the night... As a Private Detective working alongside Scotland Yard you will be faced with the most challenging adversary of your career, a man who's very name has become a byword for terror: Jack the Ripper. Are you smart enough to catch him? BEWARE: This game is 200+ pages long and will take about 30-60 minutes to read through. Do not read if operating heavy machinery, juggling chainsaws or entertaining small children. Author's Note: This story will require some thinking and the reader might want to make notes, though with a bit of cleverness and logic readers should be able to correctly identify the real Ripper. About 95% of the information in this story is historically accurate. Finally as you'd probably guess a story about hunting someone who killed and mutilated prostitutes is not a feel-good family comedy, if you are under 13 I don't recommend that you read this. Certainly do not google "Jack the Ripper victims" if you suffer from nightmares :D]
  
  > search for the escaped killer
  "I'll see what I can do," you tell Monro who nods.
  
  "I'm glad you can help," he tells you. "I'll send a telegram to Dr Orange, the Superintendent at Broadmoor, asking him to meet you tomorrow. He can tell you more about Kelly."
  
  The next day you take a train out to the Asylum in the heart of the Berkshire countryside. A servant from the Hospital meets you at the station and takes in a horse and carriage through the sleepy village of Crowthorne and up to the gloomy and looming concrete walls of the Hospital. You are shown directly into Orange's office where the Doctor shakes your hand. He is a middle-aged profession with a no-nonsense manner.
  
  "I got Commissioner Monro's telegram and I will be glad to help you in any way I can," he tells you. "We are all rather concerned here: James Kelly was one of our most clever patients and I believe him to be a real danger to the general public, especially women."
  
  You nod and consider which questions to ask first.
  
  > What is Kelly's criminal history?
  "Five years ago Kelly stabbed his wife Sarah in the neck with a knife killing her," Dr Orange tells you. "He believed she was a prostitute who had infected him with a sexually transmitted disease. He surrendered at once to policemen and became very remorseful afterwards, claiming he was mad. At the trial he was originally sentenced to be executed but at an appeal he was found mentally unfit and sentenced to life imprisonment at this facility. During his time here Kelly has shown no violent tendencies and in fact displayed no signs of insanity whatsoever. I would say he was one of the cleverest patients we've ever had here."
  
  You nod, considering what to ask next.
  
  > say "How did Kelly escape your prison?"
  "Kelly and another prisoner called George Shatten both play instruments in the Asylum's band," Dr Orange tells you. "On the evening Kelly escaped they went out into the garden where the band meet to practice. When the rest of the band joined them an hour later only Shatten was still there. When we searched him we found two keys that he and Kelly had carved made out of some metal they found in the asylum's garden. Kelly used this to let himself through a gate in the inner wall and afterwards climbed the six-foot high outer wall. He vanished without a trace but guards do report seeing a man called John Merritt near the Hospital during the day yesterday. He is an old friend of Kelly's and visits him occasionally."
  
  You nod, considering your next question.
  
  > say "Where do you think Kelly will go now?"
  "I have no idea," Dr Orange says heavily. "The house he lived in and where he killed his wife Sarah is in Shoreditch, London. He has told me he was born in Liverpool and may still have family there. Two of his old friends, a Mr John Merritt and a Mr Walter Lamb, used to visit him from time to time here at the Asylum. Unfortunately we have no registered addresses for either of them. The only address we have on file is Kelly's former residence in Shoreditch."
  
  You nod, considering your next question.
  
  > say "What is Kelly's criminal history?"
  You are not interested in trying to find Kelly and turn the case down.
  
  Two months later two policemen visit your home introducing themselves as Constables Wildey and Dillworth. "A lady called Ada Wilson has been stabbed in her home in Mile End" Dillworth tells you. "She is in hospital in a serious condition but hopefully she'll pull through. My colleague and I have been tasked with finding the assailant and Commissioner Monro recommended we talk to you. Would you be willing to help us?"
  
  > Agree to help search for this mysterious knifeman
  You agree to help the investigation and the Policemen smile.
  
  "Thank you sir," Dillworth replies. "The attack took place at Mrs Wilson's residence on Maidman Street. She is currently under the care of Dr Wilson at the Mile End Hospital. The attacker stabbed Mrs Wilson twice in the throat but fortunately the windpipe was not severed. If you tell us where you will go we will accompany you."
  
  What do you do?
  
  > go to Maidman Street
  You travel to Maidman Street where the Constables identify Mrs Wilson's house and you knock on the door. It is opened a crack by a nervous young lady who looks relieved when she sees you are accompanied by two uniformed policemen. Opening the door wider she introduces herself as Miss Bierman.
  
  "I live here with Mrs Wilson" she tells you. "Last night I heard her come home with a man but I was upstairs in my bedroom and did not see them. At around midnight I heard the most terrible screams you could imagine! I ran downstairs and as I was coming down the stairs Mrs Wilson shouted to me 'Stop that man for cutting my throat! He has stabbed me!' She collapsed in the hallway and as she did a young man ran to the front door, threw it open and raced outside."
  
  "Can you describe this man?" you ask Miss Bierman who nods.
  
  "He was young with fair hair and had a light coat," she tells you. "I only caught a glimpse of him, after he left I ran to help Mrs Wilson who was bleeding badly. I don't know what to do now, it is just me and my mother here. What should we do if he comes back?"
  
  The policemen reassure her that she is perfectly safe and after thanking her for her help you walk away, considering where to go now.
  
  > go to the Mile End Hospital
  Traveling to the large Mile End Hospital you find the ward with Ada Wilson on and approach her bed. Mrs Wilson is a young lady with a blood-stained bandage wrapped around her neck, she is very pale but greets you with a hoarse voice. The policemen explain to her who you are and ask her to describe her attack.
  
  "I was at home when I heard a knock on the door," she tells you. "When I opened it I saw a man I did not know waiting. He demanded money from me and told me if I didn't give him any I would be dead in a few moments. I refused so he drew a clasp knife from his pocket, stabbed me twice in the throat and ran off. He was about 30 years old, five foot six inches with a sunburned face and a fair mustache. He was wearing a dark coat, light trousers and a hat."
  
  Thanking Mrs Wilson you think about what to do next.
  
  > wrap up the investigation
  You decide you have done all that you can for now, you have a description of the attacker but in a city the size of London there are probably thousands of men who match it. Constables Wildey and Dillworth are disappointed but thank you for your help, promising to keep looking for the man who matches the description of Mrs Wilson's attacker. A few days later Constables Wildey and Dillworth visit your home again. You ask them if they have had any luck looking for their man but they shake their heads.
  
  "We've just heard a woman called Annie Millwood has collapsed and died at a workhouse in South Grove," Dillworth tells you. "It seems last month she was stabbed numerous times and had only recently been discharged from a hospital in Whitechapel. If you have time perhaps you could investigate this murder for us?"
  
  > Agree to look into it
  "Mrs Millwood's body has been taken to the mortuary at Baker's Row Infirmary" Wildey informs you when you agree to help. "The Workhouse where she died is the Whitechapel Union Workhouse in Southgrove, apparently she had been living there for ten days prior to her death. You will want to start your search at one of those places. I'm afraid me and Constable Dillworth will not be able to accompany you personally as we have other duties to attend to."
  
  > go to the Bakers Row Infirmary
  Going to the Baker's Row Infirmary you make inquiries about Mrs Millwood to a nurse at the front desk.
  
  "Ah yes, poor woman" the nurse says sadly. "Dr Wheeler treated her when she was first stabbed and Dr Arthur has just finished conducting the autopsy on her body. You will want to talk to one of those gentlemen."
  
  > ask for Dr Arthur
  You are directed to Dr Arthur's office to find the Doctor is a grey-haired professional. Identifying yourself you ask him if he conducted the autopsy on Mrs Millwood.
  
  "I did," he replies heavily. "Mrs Millwood died from a sudden effusion into the pericardium from the rupture of the left pulmonary artery through ulceration."
  
  "Pardon?" you ask, completely baffled, and Dr Arthur smiles.
  
  "Natural causes sir. Mrs Millwood died from natural causes unrelated to her previous knife wounds."
  
  It seems there has been no murder at all so you return home and that evening inform Constables Dillworth and Worthey that Annie Millwood died from natural causes. They thank you for your good detective work, increasing your reputation with the police.
  
  1 has been added to your Reputation Points.
  
  Again after just a few days Constables Dillworth and Worthey return to visit you, looking concerned. "There has been another attack," Dillworth tells you. "A prostitute called Emma Smith is at the London Hospital in Whitechapel with what I'm told are horrific injuries. It does not seem likely that she will survive. Unfortunately my partner and I are unable to attend to this case ourselves as we are involved with another investigation, could you look into this for us?"
  
  > Agree to help them
  "It seems that Miss Smith was attacked on the corner of Brick Lane last night at around 4am," Constable Worthey tells you after you agree to help. "She managed to walk back to her lodgings on George Street in Spitalfields where two ladies helped her to the Whitechapel Hospital. She's there now in a serious condition. You will probably want to start your investigation in one of these three places."
  
  > go to the crime scene on Brick Lane
  You make your way to Brick Lane which is a busy street in the heart of London's East End. You make your way to the corner where the attack hapenned but there is nothing to be seen in the light of day, not even any blood on the ground. After examining the area where Emma Smith was attacked and not finding any trace of evidence you consider your next move.
  
  > go to Miss Smiths house in Spitalfields
  You travel to George Street in Spitalfields and knock on the door of Miss Smith's house. It is opened by a pale-faced lady who watches you carefully as you identify yourself as a Private Detective.
  
  "I'm Mary Russell, I'm the Landlady of this lodging house" she tells you. "I've known poor Emma for about two years and helped her when she came home this morning. It was me and Emma's friend Margaret who took Emma to the Hospital and I've never seen so much blood in all my life..."
  
  > question Mrs Russell about the attack
  You ask Mrs Russell to describe Emma's appearence when she returned.
  
  "It was terrible," Mrs Russell tells you. "Emma got in at around four or five o'clock and woke me up. She said she had been attacked and raped by three men. They'd given her black eyes and half-torn off one of her ears. She was bleeding so much that the shawl she'd put between her legs to soak up the blood was soaked and dripping. How she managed to walk home I've no idea. Me and Margaret helped her to the Hospital and left her with Dr Haslip."
  
  You thank Mrs Russell for her information including the important fact that Emma was attacked by a gang instead of just one person. You return home and share this information with the Constables when they visit.
  
  "The East End is dangerous at night with all these street gangs roaming around," Dillworth tells you. "Still, at least we know Mrs Smith's assailant in probably not the lone man who attacked Mrs Wilson. Thank you for finding this out for us." You reputation with the police has improved slightly and you gain 1 Reputation Point. Two days later you are saddened to read that Emma Smith has died of her injuries.
  
  You have added 1 to your Reputation.
  
  The next four months are quiet ones for your Detective Practice until one morning your breakfast is interrupted by the arrival of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, a senior figure in the Metropolitan Police. Serious and matter-of-fact he comes straight to the point.
  
  "I would like your help," he tells you. "Last night a woman was brutally murdered in the George Yard buildings in Whitechapel. She has been stabbed some forty times. When this reaches the newspapers there will be a lot of public interest in finding the murderer. I am aware of your abilities and would like your assistance in this business."
  
  > Agree to investigate
  "Good man," Inspector Reid says briskly. "As I understand it this unfortunate lady's body was found inside the George Yard building at around 5am by a man who informed Constable Barrett. Barrett in turn notified Dr Killeen who has taken the body of the deceased to the mortuary on Old Montague Street to perform an autopsy. Constable Barrett is over at H Division's Police Station and we can either go to the scene of the crime, collect the results of the autopsy or talk to Barrett."
  
  > go to the crime scene in George Yard
  You and Inspector Reid walk out to the George Yard Building in Whitechapel, an old factory that has been converted into an apartment block. Reid leads you through the main entrance and up a flight of stairs onto a landing. "The body was discovered lying there" he says pointing to a large circlular pool of dried blood at the foot of the next set of stairs leading up. Apart from the blood there is no trace of any evidence at the scene. Just a few feet from the blood is a door. "The Superintendent of the buildings, a Mr Hewitt lives there with his wife," Reid tells you consulting a notebook. "Mr Reeves, the man who discovered the body, resides in room 37 in this building."
  
  > talk to Mr Hewitt
  You knock on the door next to the pool of blood and it is opened by an old man. You are startled to see a short way from the door is a bed on which an old lady, undoubtably his wife, sits. From the bed to the pool of blood it can only be a few meters. Inspector Reid introduces you both to the couple who look understandably nervous. You ask them if they heard any sounds of a struggle or of voices last night and they both shake their heads.
  
  "I didn't hear anything all night," Mr Hewitt tells you firmly.
  
  "It seems a bit strange that a woman was stabbed forty times outside your bedroom door and neither you or your wife heard anything," Reid says skeptically.
  
  "At one point last night I heard someone cry out 'Murder' in a loud voice but it seemed to me that the sound came from outside the building," Mrs Hewitt says suddenly.
  
  "This is a rather rough neighborhood and cries, screams for help and loud drunks can be heard round here most nights," Mr Hewitt puts in. "We don' think much of them. Personally I think this poor creature crept up the staircase accompanied by a man for... immoral purposes, that a quarrel took place for some reason or another and that he stabbed her."
  
  You and Reid exchange glances and thank the pair. As you turn to go Mr Hewitt holds up a hand.
  
  "You might want to talk to Alfred Crow in Room 35 or Elizabeth Mahoney at number 47. They have told me they moved through this landing at different times last night and may have seen something. John Reeves who found the poor lady lives at number 37."
  
  > talk to Mr Reeves
  Going upstairs to room 37 you knock on the door. A burly man with a beard opens the door and introduces himself as Mr Reeves.
  
  "Yes sir, I found the body sir," he tells you in response to your inquiries. "I generally go down to the docks around 5am to start work. This morning I saw that woman lying in a pool of blood on the landing. Her skirts were hitched up to her stomach and she looked like she'd been raped... it was a tough thing to see. Well sir I ran out into the street right away and found this copper Barrett walking his beat. I brought him straight here and he sent me to fetch Dr Killeen from Montague Street. After that your man Barrett told me to stay in my room today so that I might be available for any inquiries."
  
  "Did you see any evidence of weapons at the scene?" Reid asks him, taking notes. "Anything like footprints or personal belongings?"
  
  Reeves shakes his head. "No sir, nothing like that."
  
  "Did you hear any disturbances last night?" you ask him.
  
  Reeves frowns. "There were two fights on the street outside before and after midnight" he tells you. "I heard people shouting 'police' and 'help' and there was some screaming, terrible screaming. I looked outside and there was some crowds out on the street fighting but policemen came and cleared them away. There was another fight around two am and some more screaming. I looked outside again and there was some drunks out there fighting but they moved away after a while and I didn't hear anything else."
  
  You and Reid thank Reeves for his information.
  
  > get the results of the autopsy from Montague Street Mortuary
  You and Detective Reid walk down to the mortuary on Montague Street where you meet Dr Killeen, an elderly and professional medical man. The body of the murdered woman is lying under a bloody sheet on a table nearby, judging by her face she is a plump, middle aged woman. Her eyes are closed and her mouth is open as if in surprise: she looks surprisingly calm like she is sleeping. After introducing you Reid asks Dr Killeen for the results of his examination.
  
  "This lady was killed by thirty-nine separate stab wounds to her body," Dr Killeen says monotonously. "The killing occurred around two thirty this morning I should guess. This lady is around thirty-six years old and well fed. She has seventeen stab wounds in her breasts, six stab wounds in her stomach, five stab wounds in her left lung, five in her liver, two in her right lung, two in her spleen, one in her groin and one in her heart which I would identify as the fatal wound. This injury penetrated her beast bone and must have been inflicted with some force by some sort of dagger or bayonet."
  
  "A bayonet?" you ask surprised and the doctor nods.
  
  "Most of these injuries could have been inflicted by a right handed man armed with a pen knife or similar weapon except for that one. In addition to her other wounds this subject has been stabbed nine times in the throat. These injuries were all inflicted on her while she was still alive and her death was the result of massive blood loss. I found no evidence of recent sexual intercourse."
  
  The image of a man hacking this lady to death on a darkened landing with nearly fifty stabs is a grim one and her death must have been very painful. You and Reid thank Dr Killeen for his work and quietly leave. Outside you breath in the fresh summer air and pause to brace yourself so you can continue the investigation.
  
  > go to the police station to talk to PC Barrett
  Detective Reid takes you to the H Division Police Station where you meet with PC Barrett, an honest looking middle-aged policeman.
  
  "Please describe your experiences last night" Reid tells his deputy.
  
  "I was walking my beat last night which takes me past the George Yard buildings on Wentworth Street," Barrett begins, consulting his notebook as he speaks. "At approximately 2am I was walking past them when I saw a soldier waiting next to the building's entrance. I would describe him as a Private wearing the uniform of the Grenadier Guards, aged between 22 and 26, approximately five feet and nine inches tall with a fair complexion, dark hair, a small brown mustache and a good conduct badge but no medals. I asked him what he was doing and he told me he was "waiting for a chum who had gone off with a girl.'"
  
  You and Reid exchange glances, your excitement mounting.
  
  "Approximately three hours later this man John Reeves ran up to tell me he had found a dead woman lying inside the George Yard Building. We went there and saw a plump woman lying on her back on the landing in a great pool of blood. Her hands were tightly clenched at her side, her legs were spread open and her clothes were pulled up leaving her lower half exposed. She was approximately thirty five years old, five feet three inches with a dark complexion, dark hair and wore a green skirt, brown petticoat, black jacket, spring-sided boots and a black bonnet. Her clothes were all old and stained. I sent Reeves to fetch Dr Killeen who arrived, pronounced the unfortunate lady dead and I helped remove her body to Montague Street before coming here to make my report."
  
  "This is a model of good police work Barrett," Reid says happily. You thank Barrett too and consider your next step.
  
  > wrap up the investigation
  You and Detective Reid are thoughtful as you return to your home that evening.
  
  "Well, we've received a good deal of information," Reid tells you. "Where do you think we should focus our search for this murderer?"
  
  > In the pubs near the George Yard Building
  You suggestion is a commonsense one but you've overlooked important information and consequently the police inquiries in the pubs lead nowhere. When a photograph of the murdered woman is published in the papers she is identified by friends as a prostitute called Martha Tabram. Ten days after her murder DI Reid arrives at your home looking tired.
  
  "We have been concentrating our search on a soldier who was allegedly with Mrs Tabram around the time of her death" Reid tells you. "I have been at the Tower of London and to the Wellington Barracks with PC Barrett and a lady called Pearly Poll who was with Mrs Tabram at the night of her death. They've picked out several soldiers between them as the one that went off with her but all the men they picked have solid alibis for the night of the murder. We've spoken to Mrs Tabram's husband Henry Tabram, Mrs Tabram's boyfriend Henry Turner, Mrs Tabram's sister-in-law Mrs Morris and Mrs Tabram's former landlady Mrs Bousfield as well as this woman Pearly Poll but the investigation has ground to a halt. I'd like you to talk to some of the people on this list to see if you can get any information which might help us."
  
  You nod, considering who to approach first.
  
  > talk to Martha Tabram's friend Pearly Poll
  Traveling to Pearly Poll's home on Dorset Avenue you arrive to find she is a big, red-faced woman smoking a pipe. After you convince her that you work with the police she reluctantly talks to you.
  
  "Sure I knew Martha though round these parts she called herself Emma Turner. Known her four or five months. I was with her the night she snuffed it, we was drinking ale and rum first at The Two Brewers and later at The White Swan. We met two soldiers there and were drinking with them for a few hours. One was a private and one was a corporal. They had white bands round their caps. Just before midnight we separated, I took the corporal up Angel Alley and Martha took hers towards the George Yard Building. That was the last I saw of her."
  
  Pearly Poll sighs.
  
  "Me and the corporal did our thing and then we had an argument over payment and he hit me with a stick. The first thing I knew about the murder was when I read it in the morning papers. Poor Martha! Since then I have been to two parades with DI Reid to try and pick out the soldiers we were with but all the ones I thought I knew have proven they was elsewhere. I don't know what to do now, same as always I guess. Least Martha's out of this terrible life now."
  
  You thank the woman for her help and quietly leave.
  
  > talk to Martha Tabram's husband Mr Tabram
  Traveling out to a nice part of London called River Terrace you knock on the door of the house owned by Mr Tabram. He turns out to be a short, well-dressed man with iron grey hair and a mustache. You identify yourself and try to ask him about his wife but he cuts you off pretty quickly.
  
  "I have not seen her for eighteen months," he tells you shortly. "We were married and had two sons but we separated thirteen years ago on account of her drinking. I used to send her twelve shillings once a week but I stopped doing that when I learned she was living with another man. When I saw her photo in the papers I went down to Montague Street and identified her body. She has...she had... well she'd sunk very low in life."
  
  Before you can ask another question Mr Tabram slams his front door shut.
  
  > talk to Martha Tabram's boyfriend Mr Turner
  Traveling to the Working Men's Home in Spitalfields you meet with Mr Turner. He is a little man with a light sandy mustache but very dirty clothes and hands.
  
  "I was with Martha on and off for about twelve years," he tells you. "Since we lived together her drinking has picked up. If I gave her money she'd spend it on drink, any money I gave her she would spend on drink. I do not drink and when she was sober we were fine but when she was drunk I would leave her to her own affairs. She was usually out late drinking most nights and I knew how she made her money when I gave her none.."
  
  You nod sympathetically. "When did you last see her?" you ask.
  
  "Well I moved in here a few weeks ago and last saw her alive three days before she died. I gave her a shilling and a half to help her get by. I saw her photo in the newspaper... I had hoped that if she could just stop drinking we could get back together again. Guess that won't be happening now.. my Martha is gone and I'll never see her again."
  
  Mr Turner turns his head away to try to hide the tears in his eyes and thanking him for his time you quietly leave.
  
  > talk to Martha Tabram's sister-in-law Mrs Morris
  Traveling to a respectable-looking house in Mile End you find Mrs Morris's house and knock on the door. It is opened by a serious-looking woman dressed all in black who turns out to be Mrs Morris.
  
  "I didn't see very much of Martha on account of her heavy drinking" Mrs Morris tells you after you identify yourself. "I've never known her to work for a living and I knew she was a prostitute. She was always asking me for money to spend on drink... I last saw her at 11pm on the night of her death. I was walking down Whitechapel Road and saw her going into the White Swan pub with a big ugly lady and two soldiers. I didn't talk to her and I don't think she saw me. The first thing I knew about this tragedy was when I read about it in the papers. I can't say I'm surprised, just a bit sad I guess. Me and my husband always hoped Martha would pull herself together."
  
  You thank Mrs Morris for talking to you and leave.
  
  > talk to Martha Tabram's former landlady Mrs Bousman
  Traveling out to Dorset Street you knock on the door of a house which is quickly opened by a middle-aged lady who introduces herself as Mrs Bousfield. She readily answers your questions when you tell her you work with the police.
  
  "Mrs Tabram and her man Turner were living here earlier in the summer for three months," Mrs Bousfield tells you. "They snuck out one night owing me rent money. I would describe her as the sort of person who would rather have a glass of ale than a cup of tea but she was not always drunk and she never brought any man home with her except Mr Turner. You could tell how she made her living though. She was always very good helping me with my children and I was sad to hear what happened to her..."
  
  You leave after thanking Mrs Bousfield for talking to you.
  
  > wrap up your investigation
  That evening you return home weary and unhappy: your latest investigations haven't revealed anything new except the details of Martha Tabram's life. Once she had a family and a prosperous life: after a dozen years of suffering her life ended in a frenzied assault at the foot of some stairs in a crappy apartment block. DI Reid is equally pessimistic when he calls the next day.
  
  "It's no use," he confesses. "We can't identify the soldier Mrs Tabram was with. It might not even have been him who killed her but someone else entirely."
  
  This theory will gain strength very soon: just a week later a second brutal murder occurs which signals a monster's reign of terror over a frightened city and will catapult you into the hunt for the most ruthless killer London has ever known...
  
  At this point you might want to save the game or take a break: your hunt for the Ripper is about to begin.
  
  > Are you ready?
  One night you cannot sleep.
  
  Restless and feeling unaccountably anxious you rise from your bed with a sigh after several hours of trying and failing to fall asleep. A glance at your watch tells you it is 3am. Pulling on your clothes you set off for a walk down London's dark and lonely streets with thoughts of buying some snack somewhere. Some time later you are walking down a lonely alley called Buck's Row when you see a man walking just ahead of you. He looks like a cabman on his way to work and a second cabman can be seen just up ahead standing in the middle of the street looking at a strange shape lying in front of a gateway. From a distance it looks like a tarpaulin.
  
  "Come and look over here," the stationary cabman calls out to you and the other man. "There is a woman lying on the pavement."
  
  With a foreboding feeling you approach cautiously and see a middle-aged little woman lying on her back on the ground, her eyes wide open and staring blindly at the night sky. She does not appear hurt but the first cabman kneels next to her. He picks up her hands in his.
  
  "I think she is dead," the cabman says looking up. You lean over the woman's round face and greying hair and are startled when she gives a faint sigh of breath, the air brushing against your face
  
  "She is breathing but only just," you reply nervously.
  
  Hearing footsteps you spring to your feet and see a policeman walking down the street at the mouth of the alleyway, a lantern held in his hand. The two cabmen run up the street towards him.
  
  > follow them
  Your hurry after the two cabmen and call out to the policeman that there is a woman lying in the alley.
  
  "She looks either dead or drunk but I think she is dead," you tell the officer. The cabmen explain they are late for work and hurry off so you walk back down the alley with the policeman and show him where the woman is lying. Almost simultaneously two other policeman arrive with their lamps, attracted by the commotion. After looking at the motionless woman lying on the ground one of the policeman tells his companion to fetch the local police doctor, Dr Llewellyn.
  
  > go with the officer to fetch the Doctor
  You hurry off with a Constable at a steady jog to a house a few streets away. The policeman knocks on the door and calls for Dr Llewellyn to come quickly as there has been a murder. After a few minutes an old doctor emerges from the house pulling on his coat and orders you and the officer to fetch a stretcher from a shed across the road. Together the two of you find the stretcher and follow the Doctor quickly back to the alleyway. The crime scene is as you left it with the two policemen still standing there alongside the murdered woman. The Doctor takes one glance and shakes his head.
  
  "Move her to the mortuary," he instructs. "She is dead and I will make a further examination of her."
  
  You are shaken as the woman's small body is lifted, revealing a large pool of dried blood beneath her head. The policemen place the body on a stretcher and hurry away with the Doctor leaving one policeman to guard the crime scene. You consider whether you should lean on your status as a Private Detective to try and accompany the body to the mortuary or go home for a stiff drink. It can be difficult enough sometimes investigating murders but discovering one is so much more worse.
  
  > remain and examine the crime scene
  As the Doctor's group leave carrying the corpse on the stretcher between them you are left in the alleyway with the policeman guarding the small pool of blood on the ground. Suddenly the gate in front of the blood opens and a middle-aged woman in a nightgown appears there with a half-dressed teenage son at her side. She asks what has been going on and looks astonished when the policeman tells her there has been a murder.
  
  "I never heard a sound though and I'm such a light sleeper," she says in surprise. "Look my bedroom window is right there," she says and points to a window right alongside to the gate and just five feet away from the pool of blood. She shakes her head and then says something to her son that you don't catch. He hurries off and returns a few moments later with a bucket in his hands. Before you can intervene he tosses it's contents of water over the pool of blood on the ground, washing it clean away.
  
  "What on earth do you think you are doing?" the policeman exclaims in alarm.
  
  "This is our stable back here," the woman exclaims jabbing her feet at the yard behind her. "Do you think anyone will want to keep their horses here again if they hear some poor unfortunate was murdered in the gateway?"
  
  The woman and her son go back inside their home leaving the policeman looking horrified at the now clean cobblestones of the street. You decide there is nothing more to be learned here now all the evidence has been washed away.
  
  > hurry to the mortuary to view the autopsy
  You go to the mortuary where you find Dr Lewellyn is preparing for the autopsy. Two assistants are stripping the body of it's clothes and as they remove the dead woman's upper shirt they suddenly give a sudden shout of fright. You and the doctor spin around in alarm. Across the dead woman's stomach are several fresh slashes running diagonally downward from left to right. Someone has slashed savagely at this woman's stomach with a knife of some kind, partly disemboweling her. One of the assistants staggers away pale, his blood-soaked hands shaking
  
  "You might want to step into the yard for a time," Dr Lewellyn suggests to you. "Autopsies can be difficult experiences. I'll have my men provide you with this unfortunate lady's clothes and possessions for you to examine."
  
  > insist on witnessing the autopsy
  You insist on staying in the room while the Doctor examines the woman's body. With infinite care he opens the dead woman's mouth and finds she is missing several teeth, though these seem to be old injuries as our bruises on her face. The Doctor reports that the dead woman's neck has been slashed through to the backbone by a single slash, the windpipe completely severed. Apart from the various slashes to her abdomen these are the only injuries, the Doctor tells you he thinks it would have taken a knife at least eight inches long to inflict such w