In our first episode on detectives, we walk through some common detective tropes, Ripperature’s dependence on those tropes, and the dime novel The Whitechapel Murders: Or, On the Track of the Fiend (published in 1888). 

Left to right: R.A Knox, Image screenshot from The Whitechapel Murders; Or, On the Track of the Fiend, Image screenshot from The Whitechapel Murders

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