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

by Michael Dibdin

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This book is about Sherlock Holmes's last.
He fought with Jack the Ripper and Proffesor Moriarty.

It's a little difficult and long for me.
But I like Sherlock Holmes's story. ( )
  kin-chan | Nov 8, 2009 |
The amazing thing about Dibdin is that each book he writes is very different from the last, with the exception of his continuing series about Aurelio Zen, a detective in Rome. The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, originally published in 1978 and recently reissued in a Vintage Crime paperback, is a good example of his originality.
Not that there’s anything unusual about this kind of book, called a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, a literary work that imitates the style of Arthur Conan Doyle and pretends to continue the adventures of the character he made so famous. The Holmes pastiche has been practiced by writers such as John Gardner and University of Louisville author Sena Jeter Naslund. Doyle’s son Adrian Conan Doyle wrote some Holmes stories with the help of mystery author John Dickson Carr. Probably the most successful author of Sherlock Holmes pastiches was the now-little-read Wisconsin writer August Derleth, who called his Sherlock Holmes clone Solar Pons and whose series ran to seven books.
Most Conan Doyle imitators suffer from Holmes worship; they try too hard and too reverently to portray Holmes. The key to a good pastiche is to get away from idolatry and make the characters your own. In this case, Dibdin makes Watson into a credible character who understands that, as he says, “Living with great men is itself a minor art.” Watson knows his role is that of the amazed and admiring sidekick in the famous verbal exchanges in which Holmes reveals a brilliant chain of deductions. So, when one morning the great detective surprises him by inferring that he had dinner the night before at Simpson’s in the Strand with an old friend and fellow-intern, Watson, suitably amazed, does not correct Holmes by telling him he had actually dined with his fiancée Mary Morstan at a restaurant in Mayfair.
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story purports to be papers written by Dr. Watson not long before his death, sealed up by his bankers for fifty years, and dealing with events in the fall of 1888 when Jack the Ripper was terrorizing the Whitechapel district of London. Dibdin welds factual details of the Ripper murders with fictional details of Holmes cases as chronicled by Arthur Conan Doyle. The result is an ingenious solution to the murders that will shock Holmes fans. ( )
  michaelm42071 | Sep 4, 2009 |
Holmes were tediously spending every day.
Because the event doesn't happen, and the request as the detective doesn't come to him.
But,one day,a murder happened.
The criminal aimed only at the woman, and tears up remains disjointedly.
Now,the last challenge of Sherlock Holmes started.
I was interested in the title.
The end of this book is continuous of the surprise. ( )
  teles | Jul 12, 2009 |
This book has some short story.

But These stories are another stories of Sherlock Holmes.

The auther is Michael Dibdin,not Conan Doyle.

So I don`t like these stories.

But one story makes me excite.

The story of Jack the ripper is good.

He was realy in London and he had never been arrested.

These stories in this book are worse than ones which are written by Doyle , but you may try to read once. ( )
  nanoc | Jun 24, 2009 |
This story is crime & mistery.
I think everyone know about Sherlock holmes.
This book is his story.
Sherlock Holmes fight with Jack The Ripper.
Who is the real nature of Jack The Ripper?
How does Watson who knew it have it?
An unexpected ending waits.
I read Sherlock Holmes for the first time.
But I can read it very easy and exciting.
Please read it! ( )
  danberdon | Jun 17, 2009 |
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679766588, Paperback)

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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