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Interesting reading for a book with an impossible solution
1998/4/6
As the heading says, this is interesting reading for a book with an impossible solution to the Ripper mystery. It IS impossible, isn't it, that Lewis Carroll, the children's author beloved on both sides of the Atlantic, was the fiend who murdered an undetermined number of prostitutes in Victorian England? The author, Richard Wallace, had already written a book describing a darker side of Carroll's psyche, but in this one, he falls far short of his goal of placing Carroll at the top of the suspect list. And frankly, Wallace betrays an overeagerness to find out what he purports to have found out in order to provide an appropriate follow-up to his first book. His "evidence" consists largely of reworking of Carroll pieces into Ripper-confessional anagrams and a reworking of possible Ripper communiques into anagrams pointing to Carroll. In a burst of enthusiasm, he even finds a precursor anagram in "The Jabberwocky", which was written many years BEFORE the Whitechapel kilings. But anagrams are the most oft-abused literary detective tools available, as anyone knows who has considered the "Shakespeare" question, and Wallace is not the first one to use them to find a Ripper solution. Others have found anagrammatic messages pointing to other suspects. 26 letters in the English alphabet circulating through a large-enough message can be twisted to create a lot of mischief. But there are entries in the book that make it worthwhile reading anyway. I don't think that anyone else has noticed, for example, that the "Eight Little Whores" poem attributed to the Ripper bears a strong thematic and rhythmic resemblance to a little-known Carroll poem called "Five Little Girls". This is hardly proof that Carroll was the Ripper. It suggests, at most, that the Ripper might have read the Carroll poem -- which is interesting in itself and adds another dimension to what is believed to be known about the Ripper. The book is filled with nuggets like that, which make it interesting and perhaps productive reading, despite its impossible (isn't it?) solution.
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