Deborah McDonald is the author of two biographies. 'Clara Collet: 1860-1948, An Educated Working Woman,' records the life of this amazing Victorian statistician/economist who had a close association with the author George Gissing and who engaged in a war of words with HG Wells. It contains a bibliography of Collet's work invaluable for students of Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Her second book,'The Prince, His Tutor and the Ripper,' unravels the truth about Jack the Ripper and the Royal connection. McDonald looks at the life of Ripper suspects JK Stephen and Prince Eddy and studies the mystery surrounding the death of Montague Druitt.She is at present working on a biography of Moura Budberg: Russian spy, lover to Maxim Gorky, HG Wells, and Robert Bruce Lockhart. Friend of the Prince of Wales and Mrs Simpson, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Alexander Korda, Charlie Chaplin, Somerset Maugham and almost every other prominent person in London and Russia during the first half of the 19th century. She was a true Red Mata Hari.For more about the author and to see the reviews go to www.deborahmcdonald.co.uk