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Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders an account of the matter by John Watson, M.D.
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I am reading The Return of Sherlock Holmes. I would say 'again' or for the 'umpeenth time', but it's the Reader's Digest version and, to be fair, my original set of Sherlock Holmes stories have small typefaces making them a harder read for someone approaching their fiftieth year. I love Arthur Conan-Doyle; his breathless optimism, the excitement of the great Victorian age of science, with the romance of the era. Wonderful and comforting reading.



The book follows the course of the 'Ripper' murders of 1888, with Sherlock Holmes, Watson and Mycroft Holmes in a desperate chase through the labyrinth of East London to catch a murderer... but is 'Jack' acting alone?, what of the mysterious 'Professor' and his organisation?-what are their plans and how do they fit in with the most notorious crimes of the Victorian era?.