The Last Sherlock Holmes Story - Brossura

Dibdin, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0679766588 ISBN 13: 9780679766582

Casa editrice: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1996

Riassunto

With the faithful Dr. Watson in attendance, Sherlock Holmes answers the call of Scotland Yard and seeks to uncover the identity of a brutal murderer of young women in London's East End, a killer known as Jack the Ripper. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"One of the most shocking accounts of crime ever produced."
—Chicago Sun-Times

"Dibdin in one of the best detective novelists around."
—London Daily Mail

"An explosive, controversial book . . . . A horrible thread of reality runs through the tale as it does in no other Sherlock Holmes story, for the Whitechapel murders were real."
—Baltimore Sun

L'autore:

Michael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on to live in Oxford, England and Seattle, Washington. He was the author of eighteen novels, eleven of them in the popular Aurelio Zen series, including Ratking, which won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger, and Cabal, which was awarded the French Grand Prix du Roman Policier. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He died in 2007.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679766588
• ISBN 13: 9780679766582
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192