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Dan L. Hollifield
Police Constable
Username: Vila
Post Number: 7
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 4:29 am: | 
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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, by Michael Dibdin.
If I could, I would burn this author in effigy.
Not only does he play fast and loose with the facts of tghe mystery, he has the solid brass... um, nerve - to write everyone's beloved hero as actually having been Jack the Ripper!
Avoid paying anything for this book at all costs! And if you find it in a public library, steal it and burn it!
Vila
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Geeper
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 6:51 am: |
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Sherlock was always written as a drug addict with "missing time" (Dying and coming back to life etc)... as a fiction story I could see myself writing Sherlock as the ripper. |
Zahir al-Daoud
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 6:50 pm: |
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Actually, I quite enjoyed the novel. In the work, Dr. Watson is the one who slowly comes to realize his dear friend has gone mad. Ripper/Holmes is portrayed a split personality. In the end, <<spoiler>> Holmes manages to regain control in time to save Watson. His last words are "Don't worry, Watson. I won't let him get you." Then he leaps to his death at the Reichenbach Falls. |
Neil K. MacMillan
Detective Sergeant
Username: Wordsmith
Post Number: 139
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 4:38 pm: |
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Interesting premise. HAS anyone ever written it the other way with Watson as the Ripper? Neil |
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