Talk:Basil Thomson

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The August 2012 edition of 'The Journal of the Whitechapel Society' carries an article by Thomas Toughill which reveals that Basil Thomson and his elder brother, Wilfred, were at New College, Oxford at the same time as Montague John Druitt, the man identified by Basil and Sir Melville Macnaghten, his predecessor as Head of CID at Scotland Yard, as their prime suspect in the Jack the Ripper case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erdbeben (talk • contribs) 19:37, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In fiction

Perhaps worth noting (though maybe not in the article itself) is that Thomson is a fairly prominent character in Ken Follett's fiction novel The Man from St. Petersburg. It's set in 1914, and Thomson appears as Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, attempting to catch a Russian anarchist seeking to disrupt the Anglo-Russian alliance. (The novel incorrectly states that Thomson had been Prime Minister of Tonga, rather than assistant to the Prime Minister.) Aridd (talk) 14:25, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Detective Novels

It should perhaps be noted that in addition to the works on Tonga mentioned in the article Thomson also wrote a number of detective novels, most notably the eight books of the Inspector Richardson series.