My notes-which I shall endeavour to follow with the minimum of extraneous comment for the remainder of this narrative-reveal that on the morning of Friday the 28th of September 1888, Sherlock Holmes received a telegram.
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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story
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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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Detective and mystery fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Private investigators, crime fiction, Mystery & Suspense, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction in English, English fiction, England, fiction, Holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, generalPeople
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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story
July 5, 1999, Faber and Faber
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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story
1996 January, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Paperback
in English
- 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
0679766588 9780679766582
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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story
1979 May, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- First Ballantine Books Edition
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The last Sherlock Holmes story
1978, Pantheon Books
in English
- 1st American ed.
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