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Martin FidoMartin Fido (born October 18, 1939, Penzance, Cornwall, England) is a true crime writer and broadcaster. His many books include The Crimes, Detection and Death of Jack the Ripper, and The Murder Guide to London. After leaving Balliol College, Oxford in 1966 where he had been a Junior Research Fellow in English, he went to the University of Leeds where he lectured in English until 1973. In 1974 he went to Michigan State University in the USA where he was a Visiting Associate Professor and the next year he became a Reader in English Literature and Head of the English Department at the University of the West Indies, Barbados. In 1983 he became a free-lance writer and broadcaster, specializing in true crime. He hosted a weekly radio programme called Murders After Midnight on LBC Radio from 1987 to 1994. Aside from his many true crime books he has also written biographies on Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde.
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