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I've been an avid fan of Doyle's work since my childhood. I'm also a scientist, anatomist and lover of history. As such, I'm very familiar with the life and works of Doyle's professor Dr. Joseph Bell, the real-life model for Sherlock Holmes and the father of the modern science of forensic medicine. I think that even the great Prof. Bell would have been impressed with the depth of scholarship that Mr. Hanna brought to this book.

The Whitechapel Horrors is an astonishingly detailed fusion of historical and scientific fact together with suspensful mystery writing. Not only was Hanna's research into the Ripper murders very impressive; but the depth of his research into life in Victorian Lodon was breath-taking! Edward Hanna brings that bygone city and its inhabitants vibrantly to life.

The authenticity of his portrayal of Holmes and Watson rings perfectly true as well. Without being slavishly imitative of the original, I feel that he captured the essential nature of these two seminal creations of Dr. Dolye's fertile imagination.

I want to offer a comment about this book's conclusion. I know that other reviewers have criticized his choice to not have the Great Detective suceed and reveal the identity of the Ripper. I respectfully disagree. I think that was absolutely the correct approach to this issue. No one is ever going to know the identity of the Ripper and to have identified him would, in my opinion, have felt false and artificial in the context of this excellent work of historical fiction.


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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Whitechapel Horrors Edward B Hanna Books Reviews

Loved it. Great book.
A very well written take on Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper. I enjoyed the story (and its twists) and particularly the author's successful efforts to make this an authentic period piece as well as a good mystery.

My only regret is that he died having written this one book. I'd have read anything he published.
While one reviewer noted that the third person narrative doesn't evoke Watson's voice I feel that is one of the strengthes of this work-too often the attempt to ape Doyle in style (nearly always destined to failure) detracts from whatever new & interesting touches the author is bringing to the narrative. Also note that the citation in product description above of '208 pages' is incorrect-this is so far the vastest of the Titan reprints coming in at nearly 500 pages including copious notes at the back.
This was an interesting book in this series, perhaps the furthest departure from the Holmes we know from Doyle's canon as any. This Holmes is different -- he makes mistakes (plural), he gets lost in the fog in a London street, he is almost outwitted... And the attempt to link everything to actual historical events and people resulted in a long book with many pages that were interesting but superfluous. If you're looking for a Holmes story that is a bit out there, you might like this. If you like your Holmes straight, it might not be your cup of tea.
Sherlock Holmes The Whitechapel Horrors by Edward B Hanna

Note From the start, this story doesn’t match up canonically. During this time, the events of The Hound of the Baskervilles are being investigated. Although this purports to be Watson’s writing, it is in the third person, not a first person account. I also discount the distasteful but usual “how I got this manuscript” nonsense. Now, on with the story!

Our story opens on Saturday, September 1, 1888. The night before, Mary Anne Nichols was found gruesomely murdered in Buck’s Row in the Whitechapel district in the East End of London. Holmes and Watson are visited by Detective Inspector Abberline and Police Sergeant Thicke, who are investigating the murders. Holmes and Watson examine the body and scene, but Holmes seems oddly ambivalent about the whole thing. He simply tells Abberline that there will be more murders.

Holmes is giving a lot of thought to the murders privately, and tells Watson the man might as well be a ghost for all the clues he leaves—that is to say, none! Holmes is wrestling with something he cannot justify—murder for the sake of murder; murder without any motive.

On the night of the 8th of September, another murder takes place, the murder of Anne Chapman in Hanbury Street, Whitechapel. Looking down on the carnage that once was a living woman, Holmes vows to Watson that he will bring this fiend to justice. In investigating the scene, Holmes finds a distinctive cigarette end, from a tobacconist who coincidentally services even His Majesty the Prince of Wales. Caught at Scotland Yard by Police Commissioner Sir Charles Warren, Holmes and Watson are angrily told to get out and stay out. Indeed, Abberline is close to losing his job for consulting Holmes.

Holmes has turned down an official wanting him to investigate the Whitechapel crimes. Called to the Diogenes Club by Mycroft Holmes and Lord Rudolph Churchill, Holmes is strictly told he must investigate. It is never exactly said just how, but the Queen is behind Holmes investigating the crimes.

September 30th brings the “double event”, the murder of Elizabeth Stride in Dutfield's Yard, off Berner Street in Whitechapel; and the gruesome murder of Catherine Eddows in Mitre Square, City of London. For once, one of the crimes is out of the territory of Sir Charles Warren. The City of London Police are more cooperative with Holmes.

During this time, Watson is at Baskerville Hall. Holmes remains in London to set a trap for the killer, only to be himself attacked and nearly blamed for the Stride murder. The City of London police track the murderer to Goulston Street, in Whitechapel, finding part of Eddows’ apron and graffiti written on the wall. “The Juwes are the men who will not be blamed for nothing.” Holmes is hopeful, but Sir Charles Warren interferes and the graffiti is destroyed without be photographed.

The letters are coming in now, and the murderer has a name that lives in infamy Jack the Ripper. Holmes states that some letters are no doubt real, while dismissing others. He is disgusted that the graffiti was destroyed before a photo was taken; wanting to compare the writing to the letters.

Holmes himself gets a “catch me if you can” letter from Jack the Ripper. Finishing up with the Baskerville case, Holmes is now free to give the Ripper his full attention.

On the 9th of November, a body is discovered in a room at 13 Miller’s Court. The murder was indoors, and Jack the Ripper had done far more damage than ever before. The body had the flesh peeled from stomach and thighs in great folds which were then piled on a table. The entrails were also removed; her breasts were cut off, the face so badly mutilated as to make facial recognition impossible, and the heart was missing. The body is assumed to be that of Mary Jane Kelly, who rented the room at 13 Miller’s Court. An angry Holmes swears there will be no more murders.

Mr. Hanna concludes his tale with a mystery within a mystery. Holmes tells Watson he has no clue who the Ripper was, but Watson knows he is lying. Pressed about the point, Holmes tells Watson some things are better left unknown. Watson knows that Prince Eddy, The Duke of Clarence is a suspect, and presses Holmes on that point. Holmes denies that Price Eddy is the killer, but it seems to Watson that he protests too much.

Hanna’s book is part Sherlock Holmes mystery, and part Jack the Ripper sourcebook. The major facts of the case, the victims, and the suspects can be found in this Holmes mystery. Having Holmes not endorse any suspect, but hint at Prince Eddy is a masterstroke. No solution for this unsolved crime was ever decided, yet Holmes solves the case without directly naming a suspect! All in all, I believe this book worth four and one half stars out of five stars.

Quoth the Raven…
I've been an avid fan of Doyle's work since my childhood. I'm also a scientist, anatomist and lover of history. As such, I'm very familiar with the life and works of Doyle's professor Dr. Joseph Bell, the real-life model for Sherlock Holmes and the father of the modern science of forensic medicine. I think that even the great Prof. Bell would have been impressed with the depth of scholarship that Mr. Hanna brought to this book.

The Whitechapel Horrors is an astonishingly detailed fusion of historical and scientific fact together with suspensful mystery writing. Not only was Hanna's research into the Ripper murders very impressive; but the depth of his research into life in Victorian Lodon was breath-taking! Edward Hanna brings that bygone city and its inhabitants vibrantly to life.

The authenticity of his portrayal of Holmes and Watson rings perfectly true as well. Without being slavishly imitative of the original, I feel that he captured the essential nature of these two seminal creations of Dr. Dolye's fertile imagination.

I want to offer a comment about this book's conclusion. I know that other reviewers have criticized his choice to not have the Great Detective suceed and reveal the identity of the Ripper. I respectfully disagree. I think that was absolutely the correct approach to this issue. No one is ever going to know the identity of the Ripper and to have identified him would, in my opinion, have felt false and artificial in the context of this excellent work of historical fiction.