Ripper's Ring

by Steven R. Southard

In the East End slums of London in 1888, a carriage-man named Horace Grott takes a ring from a corpse. Not just any ring, it’s the one Plato wrote about, the legendary Ring of Gyges, which makes its wearer vanish. With this power of invisibility, Horace steals food, lives in mansions . . . and commits murder. Within Scotland Yard, Detective Wellington Bentbow works to solve a mystery only he can decipher, reaching conclusions nobody else would believe. Learn why the crimes of Jack the Ripper have never been solved, and ask yourself whether you could resist the awesome and ghastly temptations of Plato’s Ring of Gyges . . . Ripper’s Ring.

57 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 3, 2015

About the author

I write science fiction intended to make readers feel like they’ve solved a challenging problem or taken an adventurous voyage along with my characters. I've written in several genres, including science fiction, steampunk, historical, alternate history, horror, and fantasy.

My short stories appear in over a dozen anthologies. Fourteen others form the What Man Hath Wrought series. I co-edited the following anthologies: 20,000 Leagues Remembered; Extraordinary Visions, Stories Inspired by Jules Verne; and Ain’t Our First Rodeo.

Ideas prevalent in my works include submarines, the ocean, the evolution of technology, and how the past could have been different.

Feel free to dive into my website (where I’m known as Poseidon’s Scribe) at http://www.stevenrsouthard.com