![]() ![]() ![]() Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.It's heresy, he freely admits, but the heresy of the true believer. In the afterword, he asks you to forgive him. ![]() First, Dibdin shows you that he can capture the flavor of the old Arthur Conan Doyle stories perfectly then, not content with merely imitating, he adds some disturbing new elements to the legend. "Looking through the other reviews, I can see that either you love this book or you hate it. The adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson are given a new and thrilling treatment by Michael Dibdin. To calm the public outcry, Scotland Yard approaches London's most eminent detective, Sherlock Holmes, and asks him to investigate the mystery. Three women have been savagely murdered by Jack the Ripper. In the late seventies an extraordinary document came to light which for fifty years had been held on deposit by the bankers of the deceased John Herbert Watson MD - better known to devotees of Conan Doyle as Dr Watson.Ī continuous narrative in the doctor's own hand, the story opens in the East End of London in 1888. ![]()
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