The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) - Softcover

Dibdin, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679766588 ISBN 13: 9780679766582

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1996

Synopsis

In 1888 Sherlock Holmes is languishing for a criminal case worthy of his powers, then one materializes, heralded by the spatter of gore and the shriek of headlines. For in vice-ridden Whitechapel, three female paupers of dubious morals have been murdered, their bodies hideously defiled. And in taunting letters their killer announces his intention to strike again--and signs his name "Jack the Ripper."

As conceived by the award-winning mystery writer Michael Dibdin, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story is a brilliantly inventive updating of the Holmes legend. Pitting master detective against archfiend, steely rationalism against satanic depravity, Dibdin gives us a Holmes who is more complex, more human, and ultimately more fascinating than the one imagined by Arthur Conan Doyle. Here is a riveting combination of history and fiction that confirms Dibdin's reputation as one of the most imaginative and atmospheric crime writers now at work.

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Review:

"One of the most shocking accounts of crime ever produced."
--Chicago Sun-Times

"Dibdin in one of the best detective novelists around."
--London Daily Mail

"An explosive, controversial book . . . . A horrible thread of reality runs through the tale as it does in no other Sherlock Holmes story, for the Whitechapel murders were real."
--Baltimore Sun

Book Description:

Can the world's greatest detective unmask Jack the Ripper? The Last Sherlock Holmes Story is a thrilling addition to the Sherlock Holmes canon by Michael Dibdin, another of Britain's best-loved crime writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679766588
• ISBN 13: 9780679766582
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192