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- Verlag: Audiogo; Auflage: Unabridged. (2. September 2010)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1408468247
- ISBN-13: 978-1408468241
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 14,2 x 13,8 x 1,6 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (26 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 438.747 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In the late seventies, an extraordinary document came to light which for fifty years had been held on deposit by the bankers of the deceased John Herbert Watson MD - better known to devotees of Conan Doyle as Dr Watson. A continuous narrative in the doctor's own hand, the story opens in the East End of London in 1888. Three women have been savagely murdered by Jack the Ripper. To calm the public outcry, Scotland Yard approaches London's most eminent detective, Sherlock Holmes, and asks him to investigate the mystery. This is the acclaimed novel by Michael Dibdin, winner of the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award. 'A coolly intelligent author' - "Observer". This is a complete and unabridged reading by Robert Glenister. The adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson are given a new and thrilling treatment by Michael Dibdin.
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Michael Dibdin, geboren 1947, ging in Schottland und Irland zur Schule. Nach Studienjahren in England und Kanada lehrte er mehrere Jahre an der Universität von Perugia. Hier entstand auch die Idee für seine später preisgekrönte Krimiserie mit dem italienischen Kommissar Aurelio Zen. Michael Dibdin, laut Daily Telegraph der "unbestrittene Champion unter den englischen Krimiautoren", lebt mit seiner Frau, der Schriftstellerin Katherine Beck, in Seattle.
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Let me say this first: this is not a novel for the squeamish. The Last Sherlock Holmes story is a visceral retelling of the events surrounding the Jack the Ripper murders with the fanciful addition of Holmes as chief investigator. Though the novel abounds with the trappings of classic Holmes stories -- the narration of Watson, the scalpel-sharp intellect of Holmes, even the pipe and Persian slipper -- the comparison ends there. Dibdin's Holmes is a man of deep complications, as is his Watson. The classic characters are given rich humanity, with sometimes frightening results. Though purists of the Holmes genre might quibble, this is a powerful and convincing novel, made all the more plausible by its inclusion of accurate details from the Ripper murders. How convincing is it? After I put the book down, the numb shock didn't wear off for at least two days. Read this book!
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There is a long and honoured tradition among mystery writers and fans of the Sherlock Holmes tales of writing one's own mystery. This can take one of several starting points - to take a detail in the canonical stories and develop it more fully (there are a lot of dangling pieces in there), to take the characters of Holmes and Watson (and perhaps others) and involve them in completely new fictional scenarios, or, as author Michael Dibdin does here, involve the characters in actual historical events. Dibdin is not the first to pit Holmes against the murderer of Whitechapel, whom history has come to know as 'Jack the Ripper'. Indeed, if there was one case upon which the Holmesian skill was needed in London a hundred years ago, it was that case, still unsolved by the authorities.
Dibdin, however, does a twist to this. Holmes is involved in solving the case, but even he cannot do it. This, we discover in the course of things, is because of a very dark secret indeed. Holmes is known from the canonical stories to be a cocaine addict, a seven-percent solution being his favoured dose. Dibdin set the premise that this has caused Holmes to have a split personality, and that his nemesis Moriarty is in fact Holmes himself. This is an overlay of the idea of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, a story contemporary with Conan Doyle's canon, and also one involving drug transformation.
This is a story for the true Holmes fan. As another reviewer has commented, those who are not intimately familiar with the Holmesian canon are likely going to be lost in many of the details and get a vastly distorted picture both of the detective and his arch-enemy. This is a flight of pure fancy, a 'what if?' very well crafted and executed, but rather far from what the traditional Holmesian and Sherlockian followers will accept.
Dibdin does write in an engaging style, and sets this up as a Watsonian narrative buried for a period to permit the Holmes legend to rest secure before being savaged. Of course, that legend is secure, as countless pastiches that have warped Holmes into every conceivable type of person and placed him in ever more diverse setting have been unable to shake - indeed, their continued production only serves to solidify that prominence. Dibdin's contribution is a welcome, if shocking, contribution to this body of work.
Few who read it will ever forget it.
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As an ardent Sherlockian I am clearly in a minority in thinking this book stunning. Far from criticising the liberties Dibdin takes with Holmes, I applaud him for his interpretation - surely better than preserving the character in aspic. In brief then, Holmes is pitted against the Ripper, but this narrative has the feel of a gritty documentary, as compared to the white-washed 'screenplay' of the original stories. Dibdin skillfully extrapolates what was always present beneath the surface, if we're honest. Of course such a mind would be precariously balanced, of course the showy deductions would occasionally fail, and of course Holmes' Moriarty fixation is dangerously close to a persecution complex. What Dibdin attempts to do here is present us with a 'true' manuscript, beqeathed in Watson's Will, of his final 'adventure' with Holmes. All the old elements are in place, but very different, we feel as though someone has drawn back a veil. The ending of this book has been much criticised in other reviews, chiefly because of it's lack of a 'double-bluff' twist. But I think I'm giving nothing away when I say that the very lack of a double-bluff is in itself the plot twist, the writer plays games with our expectations by dangling the most blatant of clues throughout the book, then answering them in the most shocking way. Essentially it's power comes from precisely the faith we have in Holmes, and this in the end makes it a respectful work, NOT a hatchet-job. Love it or hate it, few seem to be ambivalent. Read it!
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Disturbing.. yes, but very exciting too!
Great book! This book always draws fierce responses from hard-core Sherlock fans. But in the end , its a great book; extremely readable and it has character. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. April 2000 von "bijesh"
Not what I expected
Not a good Sherlock Holmes story. The novel is very predictable... If you are a Sherlock Holmes fan I would not recommend this novel... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. März 2000 veröffentlicht
Disappointing
Does Dibdin hate Sherlock Holmes? We have here a depraved, drug-ruined monster who hates women and sex in particular, and humanity in general. A sociopath. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. März 2000 veröffentlicht
This was GREAT!
I absoulutly loved this book, I am a big fan of Micheal Dibdin, so it was no suprise that this like his meany other books would be suspencefull masterfull, and just an all out... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Februar 2000 von mel
Upsetting
I figured out very early on who the Ripper really was, and it upset me. This book will shake most Sherlockians to the core. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Januar 2000 von "bibliochick"
Warning! Sherlock Holmes Fans: Don't Read
Self-serving destruction of a classic character, the story is engaging through its pages, and incorporates many of the snippits and characterizations of Doyle's stories... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
Warning! Sherlock Holmes Fans: Don't Read
Self-serving destruction of a classic character, the story is engaging through its pages, and incorporates many of the snippits and characterizations of Doyle's stories... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
Self-serving Destruction of a Classic Figure
This book is well-written from the reader's point of view. The story is good and worthy of Holmes and Doyle fans in his details and structure.... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Dezember 1999 von Alice Schumm
Truer To Holmes Than Those Ghastly Laurie King Books Are
Irascible is the only word for Michael Dibdin. He's unafraid to take on the heavy mythology of Holmes, but his REAL target -- I have to believe -- are writers who muck around with... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
My eyes bulged for 30 minutes after I finished!
What a shocker! I had read one other Dibdin work before (The Tryst) also good, but didn't know quite what to expect from this one. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. September 1999 veröffentlicht
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