One respectable doctor. One violent stranger. One identity that refuses to remain divided.

Jekyll & Hyde: The Divided Self Investigation is a book-only literary role-playing experience inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's Gothic classic. Readers enter Victorian London as investigators charged with examining the relationship between Dr. Henry Jekyll and the disturbing Edward Hyde.

Follow the evidence through private correspondence, witness accounts, medical observations, suspicious behavior and conflicting explanations. Assume investigative responsibilities, consider the motives of the people surrounding Jekyll and decide what the surviving record reveals about identity, secrecy, reputation and moral responsibility.

This interactive literary investigation explores:

• The connection between Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde
• Witness testimony and contradictory evidence
• Victorian reputation, respectability and secrecy
• Scientific ambition and ethical responsibility
• The psychology of the divided self
• Role-based decisions and investigative questions
• Competing explanations of guilt and accountability
• A final case determination based on the evidence

Designed for independent readers, book clubs, homeschool families and literature groups, this experience combines Gothic fiction, literary analysis and role-playing without requiring a game master, dice, cards or additional materials.

Read the evidence. Question the testimony. Decide whether Hyde represents a separate criminal, a scientific catastrophe?or the part of Jekyll that society was never meant to see.

This independently created literary RPG is inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's public-domain novella. It is not the original novella and is not an authorized edition from any estate or other publisher.