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How might Jack The Ripper and unsafe streets of Victorian Britain have inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write detective stories?

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Jack The Ripper inspired many people in different ways. Doyle was inspired to write fictional characters solving mysteries that the real detectives in Scotland Yard could not.

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