Sherlock Holmes: Holmes and the RipperThe grisly serial killings of prostitutes and vulnerable women in Victorian Whitechapel, dubbed by the popular press as the work of ‘Jack the Ripper’ are the talk of London, and from deep within the smog-ridden slums, yet another piercing shriek is heard.Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H. Watson are drawn into one of the darkest plots ever to shake the foundations of England. There are freemasons, conspiracies and plots at the highest level of the establishment.But for Holmes, there is a uniquely personal element to this new and terrifying case…
On the 26th day of October, 1585, the barriers of the Porte Saint Antoine, one of the gates to Paris, were still closed at half past ten in the morning. Thousands of Parisians poured in from every quarter to witness the execution of Salcede, a Spaniard who had been found guilty of attemted assassination against the royal family. Rumours of plots, counter-plots, and threatened revolt filled the air as the people waited patiently for the gates to open.
George Polti's book tells you about the inner workings of the thirty-six dramatic situations he claims to have found. According to him, the possible plots can be reduced to one of these situations or to a variation on them.