Jack the Ripper in fiction physician is the murderer. Coincidentally, in both movies, character actor Frank Finlay plays Inspector Lestrade. Part of the conspiracy plotline was followed in the television miniseries "Jack the Ripper" (1988) starring Michael Caine as Inspector Frederick Abberline. In the 1997 film "The Ripper", Samuel West starred as Prince Eddy, who was revealed as the Ripper, and Love Lies Bleeding (1999 film) featured Paul Rhys, Emily Raymond and Faye Dunaway in another film. In 2001, the Hughes Brothers made the comic book "From Hell" into a film of the same name starring Johnny Depp as Abberline. The film again sticks to
From Hell letter the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee. It was accompanied by a preserved section of a human kidney; the letter's writer claimed to have eaten the other half. The police received a large number of letters claiming to be from the murderer, at one point having to deal with an estimated 1,000 letters related to the case, but the "From Hell" message is one of the few that has received serious attention as possibly being genuine. Opinions on the matter have remained divided. Several fictional works have referred to the Lusk letter, an example being the thriller novel "Dust and Shadow". The letter