Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usceast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted From: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Sherlock Holmes again Message-ID: <2192@usceast.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Apr-85 22:29:06 EST Article-I.D.: usceast.2192 Posted: Sun Apr 14 22:29:06 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Apr-85 00:46:53 EST References: <1045@topaz.ARPA> <478@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <9719@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: ted@usceast.UUCP (System Programmer) Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia Lines: 41 Summary: In article <9719@brl-tgr.ARPA> (Karen Wilson ) writes: > >I liked "Ectoplasmic Man" a little better than that, but that's neither >here nor there. If you don't mind Holmes mixing with historical figures, >you might want to read another new one, "The Mycroft Memoranda" (available >from Magico or at the public library). In it, Holmes meets and unmasks the >infamous "Jack the Ripper." [Come to think of it, this might be a little >more fair than having him meet Houdini; after all, nothing says the greatest >detective had to meet the greatest magician of the day, but it makes sense >to think that the greatest detective sought the most horrible and elusive >criminal of the day...] > >You might have a hard time swallowing the author's choice of identity for >the Ripper (I know I did), but the book had other redeeming features. May- >be a B-. > >Karen Wilson > >P.S. What about net.books.holmes? Just a thought............. Talking about unbelievable identities for Jack the Ripper... In a book called (I think) _Exit Sherlock Holmes_ . We find out that Holmes was in fact HIMSELF Jack the Ripper as well as Moriarty (sorry Jeff). The book details Watson's growing horror as he ferrets out the truth. He finally confronts Holmes at Richenback (sp?) and forces enough sanity back into him for him to commit suicide rather than hurt Watson. (So both Holmes and Moriarty both went down in the falls). Watson admits that all the stories thereafter are fictional (or actually happened earlier). I can't really recomend this one - it's really a downer. (I kept waiting for some plot twist that would show that things were not what they seemed, but it never came). Ted Nolan ..usceast!ted -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Nolan ...decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted (UUCP) 6536 Brookside Circle ...akgua!usceast!ted Columbia, SC 29206 allegra!usceast!ted@seismo (ARPA, maybe) ("Deep space is my dwelling place, the stars my destination") -------------------------------------------------------------------------------