The Last Sherlock Holmes Story
For fifty years after Dr Watson's death, a packet of papers, written by the doctor himself, lay hidden in a locked box. The papers contained an extraordinary report of the case of Jack the Ripper and the horrible murders in the East End of London in 1888. The detective, of course, was the great...
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For fifty years after Dr Watson's death, a packet of papers, written by the doctor himself, lay hidden in a locked box. The papers contained an extraordinary report of the case of Jack the Ripper and the horrible murders in the East End of London in 1888. The detective, of course, was the great Sherlock Holmes - but why was the report kept hidden for so long?
This is the story that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote. It is a strange and frightening tale...
źródło opisu: Oxford University Press, 2008
źródło okładki: http://elt.oup.com/
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780194791212
Publish date: 2008 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Detective,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Horror,
Gothic
I'm a Holmes purist for the most part. I don't like it when writers bring him to modern times or put him in a sci-fi story or make him ridiculous instead of edgy and a bit scary. But Dibdin did draw me in on this one, even though he strays WAY away from Doyle's Holmes. Boy, it's quite the thriller. ...
I'm a Holmes purist for the most part. I don't like it when writers bring him to modern times or put him in a sci-fi story or make him ridiculous instead of edgy and a bit scary. But Dibdin did draw me in on this one, even though he strays WAY away from Doyle's Holmes. Boy, it's quite the thriller. ...
This book started out with a strike against it as the Holmes vs The Ripper idea has pretty much reached a complete saturation point. In fact, often while reading this novel, I felt that I had read it previously only to find a new bit here or there that would have left enough impression on me to prec...
I enjoyed this book quite a bit more than I would have expected to had I been spoiled for the ending. It reads right against the grain of the canonical stories, perhaps aggressively so, but it locates itself interstitially, taking place off-stage, between acts, a little like Paula Vogel's Desdemona...
Looking through the other reviews, I can see that either you love this book or you hate it. I'm in the first group. First, Dibdin shows you that he can capture the flavor of the old Arthur Conan Doyle stories perfectly; then, not content with merely imitating, he adds some disturbing new elements to...
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