Michael Dibdin: The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (UK 1999) From the Publisher: A continuous narrative in the doctor's own hand, the story opens in the East End of London in 1988. Three women have been savagely murdered by Jack the Ripper. To calm the public outcry, Scotland Yard approaches London's most eminent detective, Sherlock Holmes, and asks him to investigate the mystery. Michael Dibdin: The Last Sherlock Holmes Story. Faber & Faber, ISBN: 0571140785 (July, 1999), 192 p., £6.99.
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Michael Dibdin: The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (USA 1996) From the Publisher: 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. Michael Dibdin: The Last Sherlock Holmes Story. Vintage Books, ISBN: 0679766588 (January, 1996), 190 p., $12.95.
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