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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin
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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

By Michael Dibdin

By Michael Dibdin

Category: Mystery & Suspense

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Paperback $14.00

Jan 03, 1996 | 192 Pages

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin
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Jan 03, 1996 | 192 Pages

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About The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

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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About Michael Dibdin

Michael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on… More about Michael Dibdin

Product Details

Paperback | $14.00
Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Jan 03, 1996 | 192 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679766582

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Praise

"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

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