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From: stratton@brl-tgr.ARPA (Sue Stratton )
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Sherlock Holmes again
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Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 08:36:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 17 08:36:05 1985
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> In article <9719@brl-tgr.ARPA> (Karen Wilson ) writes:
  [concerning Ray Walsh's "The Mycroft Memoranda," a recent Holmes pastiche]

> >
> >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  <kwilson@amsaa.ARPA>
> >
> >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
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I, too, read this books and waited for the "plot twist" that never came.  How-
ever, I think you have the title confused with that of yet another unpalatable
Holmes pastiche.  The story you mentioned is called THE LAST SHERLOCK HOLMES
STORY.   EXIT SHERLOCK HOLMES postulates Holmes and Moriarty as clones (from
the same mold) from the future; Moriarty has returned back to "primitive" Vic-
torian England because he thinks it'll be an easy world to conquer and rule;
Holmes is there to stop him.  In this one, Watson claims that it was Wiggins
(who had grown up to become a fine actor) who played the role of Altamont
in "His Last Bow," rather than Holmes, who had already departed for his own
time.

Karen Wilson