Jan Bondeson is an associate professor at Cardiff University in Wales. He is the author of the bestselling book, Buried Alive, about the history of the signs of death and the risk of being buried alive by mistake. Bondeson is the biographer of a predecessor of Jack the Ripper, the London Monster, who stabbed fifty women in the buttocks, of Edward 'the Boy' Jones, who stalked Queen Victoria and stole her underwear, and Greyfriars Bobby, a Scottish terrier who supposedly spent 14 years guarding his master's grave. His recent book, Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities, tells the story of Don, the Talking Dog, and describes the experiments with super-intelligent dogs in Nazi Germany.