It is the year 1888. A madman stalks the East End of London and only Sherlock Holmes and his trusted colleague and scribe Dr. John Watson stand between him and the women he preys upon. However, the World's first Consulting Detective is plunged into a web of intrigue and deceit. Is Jack the Ripper acting alone? Is there a conspiracy to murder fallen women in Whitechapel? How far must Holmes go to stop it? Add a plot to steal the most famous jewels in existence and a sinister figure known only as 'The Professor' and you have more than one mystery to be solved...
I am afraid that I, Sherlock Holmes, must act as my own chronicler in this singular case, that of the Whitechapel murders of 1888.
Things became yet blacker against him when at 10:15 a.m. the following morning, Duncan Campbell, a seaman at the Sailor's Home in Wells Street, allegedly purchased a knife from Sadler for the price of a shilling and a piece of tobacco.
But in Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire, Jack is a vampire and Holmes refusal to believe it could be his undoing as the two match wits in this delightfully original first novel.
A carefully researched vintage-style reimagining of the case of Jack the Ripper pits the nineteenth-century serial killer against Sherlock Holmes, who endeavors to identify and outmaneuver his adversary against a backdrop of their time and ...
London, 1889.
This book presents, for the first time in English, two of the earliest pieces of Ripper fiction ever written in French: Gaston Marot & Louis Péricaud's stage play Jack the Ripper from 1889, and No. 16 of the French pulp series The Secret ...
This revealed that the base of the skull was fractured, which may, he concurred with the superintendent, have been caused by falling or as a result of a blow from somebody else but confirmed that the cause of death was a fractured skull ...
I am afraid that I, Sherlock Holmes, must act as my own chronicler in this singular case, that of the Whitechapel murders of 1888.
But it gets more complex: Sadly, all indications are that the “second” Mrs. Watson (née Morstan) died sometime between 1891 and 1894 (see The Adventure of the Empty House), yet we find that the doctor is with wife as late as 1903 (see ...
Sherlock Holmes takes on the investigation of the horrific murders committed by Jack the Ripper