The last word, as usual, Dr. Roy! :)

I do seem to remember reading a book last year about Sherlock Holmes being
involved in the Jack the Ripper mystery and, indeed, turning out to be the
killing machine himself, ultimately being forced to commit suicide at the
Reichenbach Falls after struggling with an imaginary Moriarty and just managing
to avoid killing Watson himself! I found it quite difficult to digest myself.
Was it "The Running Noose" or was it "The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes?"...one of
the two, I think.


Sridhar

pinaki roy <monkaroy@...> wrote:
Dear Sherlockians,

Sumal has raised a relevant point - about Conan Doyle not writing
about the Jack the Ripper murders. I think that Doyle's reverence for women and
his "Victorian Prudery" did not allow him to deal with the ghastly murders which
almost always dealt with the exterminations of prostitutes...and the corpses
would be found with their vital and sexual organs chopped off. In no Sherlock
Holmes story has a woman been depicted as nude or in undergarments, let alone as
brutally murdered. That is why every person - child or adult - can read the
Holmes narratives.

In this context, I beg to inform you about an article printed in one of the
Sunday editions of The Statesman several years before. I do not remember the
exact date. It told how the real Jack has had been found out! The fact came to
light when Florence Maydick, an English lady, was being tried for murdering her
husband James Maydick with arsenic. She revealed that her husband kept a diary
which contained gory details about different sexual crimes and murders he had
committed, and he had signed off the 51 or 53 page diary with "Jack".
Whether James was actually Jack the Ripper we shall never know, but several
experts seem to be positive about it.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely,

(Pinaki Roy)



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