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Diana
Inspector Username: Diana
Post Number: 298 Registered: 2-2003
| Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 10:20 pm: | |
This week I pulled out an old Agatha Christie murder mystery entitled "The Clocks". I had not read it in years and years (long before I became a ripperologist). On page 44 there is this sentence, "A chap called Hanbury had this in his wallet." (Hmm, I thought, coincidence!). On the very next page (45) is a drawing of some hotel stationery. At the top it says, "Hotel Barrington, Berners Street, London W.2. That couldnt be a coincidence! Was Dame Agatha having a little fun? Or had she unconsciously used the two street names having read of JTR years before and forgotten? |
Neal Stubbings
Inspector Username: Neal
Post Number: 160 Registered: 3-2003
| Posted on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 2:22 pm: | |
Hi Diana, I would suggest it was probably a coincidence. There is a Berners Street off of Oxford Street in Central London. It is actually at W1 rather than W2, but I would think it was the street that Agatha was writing about? |
Suzi Hanney
Chief Inspector Username: Suzi
Post Number: 889 Registered: 7-2003
| Posted on Monday, June 21, 2004 - 4:32 pm: | |
Diana! Guess Neal is probably right(!) but love the idea of Agatha being a closet Ripperologist!!!! God we could do with her at times!!! Cheers suzi |
Paul Williams
Sergeant Username: Wehrwulf
Post Number: 35 Registered: 7-2003
| Posted on Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 5:03 pm: | |
Christie refers to the Ripper murders in at least one of her books. In the ABC murders Poirot comments that not all the Jack the Ripper killings were by the same person. |
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