Sunday, January 22, 2006

CSI - Victorian London

Have just finished reading yet another faction book on who was Jack the Ripper - three books so far and three equally different opinions. So far we have an artist with a disfigured penis, an occultist trying to carry out some very black magic indeed and a Liverpudlian merchant. The interesting thing being that all of these theories are based on modern forensic science and all claim to have equal validity. Yet there are some things that they just can't agree on - such as how many murders were committed by the Ripper or the amount of medical knowledge that he had.

Now this actually gives me quite a good idea for a spin-off CSI based in Victorian London - Can you just imagine Grissom in a deerstalker and ulster sucking on his pipe as he tries to explain the cutting edge invention of finger prints to Nipper of the Yard or some other dim copper and then going home to play the violin and fill up on cocaine - whoops wrong detective! Thinking of Sherlock Holmes there for a minute.. Now where's the phone number for the makers of CSI?

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