Rosalie Kerr

This book was vile, and disgusting, and I completely despised it. But I couldn't put it down. For a fanatical Sherlock Holmes fan, this is the most exquisite horror story imaginable. Do not read this unless you like the sort of stories that turn your stomach inside out from the descriptions and make your brain do somersaults trying to wrap itself around the implications. It's a perfect nightmare.

It may be one of the top five horror stories I've ever read.

It wasn't the gory details that disturbed me, that sort of thing goes along with the territory of the Ripper. It was the authors lack of respect for the real people involved.

It seemed to me, that he forgot he was not writing total fiction.

I borrowed it from the library, I have it for 3 weeks, I honestly don't suppose I will finish it. Once he began referring to the people {women} of White Chapel as something other than human, I just tossed it back on my pile and went ahead to what else I show more checked out.

They were real people in a bad situation. show less

Dr.Watson who is a friend of Sherlock Homes hid a packet of papers for five years after his death. These papers told us the case of "Jack the Ripper". Why were these papers hidden for so long? What is the fact of this unsolved case?
I misunderstood that this story is written by Arthur Conan Doyle, so I felt strange at first. This writer's way of thinking is interesting. The case of "Jack the Ripper" is very odd and this story create an atmosphere of the oddness well. But because I wanted to show more read the activity of Sharlock Homes. I was a little disappointed. I should have been careful. show less

The genre of this book is crime and mystery.It is written about Sherlock Holmes,who is famous detective.
In the London of 1888,three women have been horribly murderd by Jack the Ripper.Scotland Yard is unable to stop the murders or catch the killer.So the police turn for help to Sherlock Holmes.From then the fight between Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper began.
It is interesting and exciting story.I can't expect the end of this story but it is a little difficult to understand the last scene.