Dear Boss: A Fortean Investigation of Jack the Ripper explores the culture of madness and paranoia that seized Whitechapel in the autumn of 1888. It is a murder mystery and a romantic horror story for three actors and thirty puppets, which tells of an imagined investigation of the Ripper Murders by the American chronicler of the Unexplained, Charles Fort--a famous researcher of such phenomena as spontaneous combustion, raining fish and frogs, ghosts and flying saucers--and his assistant, The Elephant Man.