Jack The Ripper Versus Sherlock Holmes
By Phillip Duke
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Jack The Ripper is England's most infamous serial killer and butcher of women, he was never identified. Sherlock Holmes is the world's most famous and successful detective character, he never failed. Both lived in the Victorian age and in the same city, London. It was inevitable that their paths would cross in London's notorious East End Whitechapel district, where Jack The Ripper selected his victims among the many prostitutes plying their trade there.
Sherlock Holmes investigates the Ripper murders, and brilliantly employing his powers of observation and logical reasoning, determines Jack The Ripper's identity. A dangerous personal meeting is arranged at Buckingham Palace, and then- but if I told you now, it would spoil your reading pleasure, and I won't do that...
Written in the Victorian style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and with 18 illustrations, the cover image is an authentic Jack The Ripper victim crime scene photograph. Warning- this book contains photographs of Jack The Ripper's victims. He was called The Ripper for good reason.
If you like reading about Sherlock Holmes.or any other good detective murder mystery, you will enjoy reading this book by Master of the Sherlock Holmes detective genre Phillip Duke Ph.D.
Phillip Duke
Phillip Duke B.S., Ph.D. is a graduate of UCLA with the B.S. in Chemistry, and of USC with the Ph,D. in Experimental Pathology/Biochemistry. Now retired, he writes on various aspects of life. His most popular titles:are: Jack the Ripper vs. Sherlock Holmes HEROIN God's Own Medicine Folly of the Hydrogen Bomb Starship To New Earth Now Karma GOLDEN SHOWERS Stories by Phyllis All 26 published titles are described on Philduke.weebly.com. Any of Dr. Phil's ebooks will be gifted to you on request, simply email drpduke@wmconnect.com. All readers are invited to contact Dr. Phil Duke by email. An ancient saying- "The mills of the Gods grind very slowly, but they grind very fine." Buena suerta, y vaya con Dios!
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Jack The Ripper Versus Sherlock Holmes - Phillip Duke
Author’s Introduction.
Jack The Ripper And Sherlock Holmes.
The world’s most notorious serial killer, Jack The Ripper, and literature’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, are both creations of Victorian England. They shared the same Victorian period in history, while living in the same city, London. It was inevitable that their paths would cross. Jack The Ripper was an all too real serial murdering and mutilating butcher of women, while brilliant and always successful consulting crime detective Sherlock Holmes is the mental creation of author and physician Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, who was knighted for his writing.
This book is true to the facts regarding the criminal known as Jack The Ripper and his horrendous crimes against women, and is also true to the brilliant consulting crime detective Sherlock Holmes, his associate Doctor John Hamish Watson, and the associated characters created by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle. Therefore this book is necessarily an intimate combination of historical criminal fact, and literary crime detective fiction.
The interactions of Jack The Ripper and Sherlock Holmes are my own creations, and therefore fictitious. However had the paths of these two singular men crossed in real life, the events I present might well have happened there just as they are described here.
Victorian era England was very different from the England of today. The electron was not yet put to its many uses, the general standard of living was deplorably low, there was no welfare state to protect the disadvantaged, narcotics were openly available, and scientific crime investigation existed only in the minds of Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle and his creation Sherlock Holmes.
People however were the same then as they always have been, and are now, the interactions of criminals with their victims and their pursuers are never ending. Put another way, the conflict between evil and good goes on forever; it is eternal.
This book is about the conflict taking place between the evil serial murdering and mutilating butcher of women Jack The Ripper, and the good and always successful brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes.
A warning- Chapter Three contains authentic photographs of mutilated Jack The Ripper victims. If viewing such may disturb you, please do not look at them. I feel it necessary to include these photographs, in order to help readers grasp what Jack The Ripper really was, based on the things he actually did. They called him Jack The Ripper for good reason.
Table of Contents
Author’s Introduction. Jack The Ripper And Sherlock Holmes.
Chapter One Jack The Ripper’s First Kill
Chapter Two The East End Whitechapel District
Chapter Three Jack The Ripper’s Victims
Catherine Eddowes (Kate Kelly) autopsy photographs.
Chapter Four Jack The Ripper Writes
Chapter Five Jack The Ripper Eludes The Police
Chapter Six Jack The Ripper Suspects
Chapter Seven Enter Sherlock Holmes
Chapter Eight Sherlock Holmes And Inspector Lestrade
Chapter Nine Mary Jane Kelly
Chapter Ten The Letters
Chapter Eleven The Evidence
Chapter Twelve Buckingham Palace
Chapter Thirteen The Meeting
Was Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward Jack The Ripper?
A Recent New Development Regarding Jack The Ripper’s Identity.
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Chapter One
Jack The Ripper’s First Kill
The coach was of extraordinary quality; outside it was painted a beautiful dark blue, shining due to many coats of lacquer; its fittings were of heavy solid sterling silver, while inside there was fine teakwood paneling and fancy goose down stuffed indigo blue cushions, with matching indigo dyed curtains. It made little noise, due to the thick rubbery coatings of gutta-percha covering its wheel rims. The silver fittings had been covered over with greasy lampblack, so they could no longer reflect what little light there was, and the curtains were tightly closed. At night the streets in Whitechapel are very poorly lit, there was only the weak light of an occasional gas lamp; it had stormed earlier and was still so dark the driver could barely see ahead. However he knew the way, and pressed on. It was the night of August 31st, 1888.
The man sitting inside the coach held a fine leather instrument case on his lap. It was the case of a surgeon, with different kinds of surgical instruments, some designed to sever flesh by cutting, and some to cut through flesh and bone by sawing. The instruments were of excellent quality, and they were all very sharp and ready for immediate use; but the man was no physician.
He was nervous, and his hands with their long, somewhat delicate looking but strong fingers and well-manicured nails, kept twisting the case’s handle. They finally arrived at their destination, near the alley known as Bucks Row in the Whitechapel District of London’s East End, notorious for vice of all kinds, and especially for the many prostitutes who plied their trade there.
Bucks Row alley was close by the many taverns selling the cheap gin called ‘Mother’s Ruin’ that first made and then killed alcoholics, and the opium dissolved in alcohol drinks Paregoric and the even stronger Laudanum. Both of them ‘soothed the nerves’ and first made and then destroyed opium addicts. Nearby was the Black Bull pub on Whitechapel Road, and just a little further off, on Commercial Street, were the Ten Bells, the Princess Alice, and the Britannia. Nearby and parallel to Commercial Street was Brick Lane, with its heavily frequented Frying Pan pub, where Polly Nichols drank the night she was murdered by Jack The Ripper. Prostitutes flocked to these taverns, and then left them to stroll on Bucks Row looking for customers.
The man alighted with his case and saying, Wait here!
to the driver, disappeared into the darkness. Finding a suitable spot on Bucks Row, he concealed himself in the shadows, and waited. Now he was in a frenzy of anticipation; he knew a prostitute would be along any time. Here comes one now! A female, obviously intoxicated and no longer young, was clumsily walking down the alley. Though drunk she still had her eyes out for a possible customer, who would pay for whatever services he desired. The man stepped out of the shadows directly in front of her, and spoke.
Here you what’s your name?
he asked gruffly.
If it please you sir, me name is Polly Nichols
and she attempted a clumsy curtsy, almost falling down in