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"I can resist everything except temptation" Oscar Wilde famously remarked, and who indeed could resist the idea of Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle teaming up to uncover the identity of Jack the Ripper? I mean, who else would be better equipped to solve the Whitechapel murders? Conan Doyle is a doctor and the creator of Sherlock Holmes, while his friend Oscar Wilde, the author of The Portrait of Dorian Grey , knows much about the hidden dark side of human nature and has some experience himself with the kind of the secrets that lurk behind the respectable surface of Victorian society. The suspense is going to be unbearable, let's hope it lasts... 1894 is both the best of times and the worst of times (or the best of crimes and worst of crimes, if you'll go with one of Oscar Wilde's scandalously witty barbs here). It's a period when London society is playing host to some of the most famous names in the history of the arts, Wilde and Doyle rubbing shoulders with...