The murders happened in the midst of Holmes's career his contemporary readership must have wished he could step out of the pages and hunt down their nightmare for them. It is inevitable that writers feel a deep-seated urge to pit Sherlock Holmes against Jack the Ripper. If Vance narrated all books, I'd never read again Watson, this debut signals the arrival of a tremendous talent in the mystery and historical fiction genres. Penned as a pastiche by the loyal and courageous Dr. However, when Holmes himself is wounded in Whitechapel attempting to catch the villain and a series of articles in the popular press question his role in the crimes, he must use all his resources in a desperate race to find the man known as “The Knife” before it is too late. Sherlock’s desire to stop the killer who is terrifying the East End of London is unwavering from the start, and in an effort to do so he hires an “unfortunate” known as Mary Ann Monk, the friend of a fellow streetwalker who was one of the Ripper’s earliest victims. In Dust and Shadow, Sherlock Holmes hunts down Jack the Ripper-the world’s first serial killer-with impeccably accurate historical detail and without the advantage of modern forensics or profiling. Lyndsay Faye perfectly captures all the color and syntax of Conan Doyle’s distinctive 19th-century London. Breathless and painstakingly researched, this is a stunning debut mystery in which Sherlock Holmes unmasks Jack the Ripper.
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