The Last Sherlock Holmes Story - Hardcover

Dibdin, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394500652 ISBN 13: 9780394500652

Publisher: Pantheon Books, 1978

Synopsis

Sherlock Holmes answers the call of Scotland Yard and, with faithful Watson in attendance, seeks to uncover the identity of the brutal murderer of young women in London's East End

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

From the Inside Flap:

In The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, Michael Dibdin pits the sleuth of Baker Street against the Butcher of Whitechapel--the archfiend Jack the Ripper. In doing so, he gives readers a Holmes possessed of greater and more disturbing depths than the one they thought they knew.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0394500652
• ISBN 13: 9780394500652
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192