John Francis Brewer

John Francis Brewer (November 25, 1864–June 15, 1921) was a late Victorian and Edwardian English novelist, journalist and organist.

[2] Brewer was educated at Kensington Catholic Public School and studied the organ privately with Robert Sutton-Sawby.

[1] In June 1905, Brewer married Katherine, née Fuller, the widow of the late Henry Edyvean-Walker, the Squire of Bilton, Rugby, at St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater church in London.

[2] In 1881, at the age of just 18, Brewer was appointed as organist of the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, Mayfair in London.

The book was the first literary adaption of the Jack the Ripper murders, and was written and published at speed only weeks after Catherine Eddowes was killed in Mitre Square.