Thanks.
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:43 PM, John Williams <johnwilliams@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Nathan Cain wrote:
>>
>> I'm in the middle of the first book of David Peace's 1974, and I've
>> got a question. The Red Riding Quartet, of which 1974 is the first
>> book, is billed as being set against the backdrop of the real life
>> Yorkshire Ripper murders, so I did a little reading about that before
>> I got too far into the book. So far, however, the events of 1974 seem
>> entirely fictional, as they have to do with child murders and the
>> ripper seems to have been a prostitute killer. I Googled the name
>> Clare Kemplay, the little girl whose murder drives the book, and the
>> only hits I got related to 1974, so I'm guessing at this point that
>> this book is not based on a true case and the Ripper stuff comes in
>> later in the series. Am I correct?
>>
>
> Yes, quite correct. The Ripper murders feature in all the remaining
> three books but not in 1974 (though characters from 1974 reappear in the
> later books).
>
> John
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