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...Strangelove. Perhaps a timely warning in view of China's recent misbehavior, Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy about dropping the A-bomb, returns this weekend. Kubrick creates an absurd and violent society (some say something like our own), peopled by the likes of General Jack D. Ripper, who gives the bombs-away order and then seals himself off, refusing to release the recall code. Meanwhile, the Russians have cooked up a Doomsday Machine to destroy the world in case someone drops an atomic bomb in their territory. It was going to be announced later that week...
...Director Bob Clark uses a powerful new weapon: incoherence. In this Victorian melodrama, the world's first consulting detective is pitted against Jack the Ripper, slayer of London harlots. An intriguing idea, but hardly unique. In A Study in Terror, Ellery Queen postulated that the fiend of 1888 was a deranged duke. Holmes' official biographer, William Baring-Gould, identified Jack as a Scotland Yard inspector. In the recent The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, Mystery. Writer Michael Dibdin put forth the heretical notion that the Ripper and the detective were aspects of the same character. Now Clark offers...
Holmes and Watson are hired to find the Ripper by a group of merchants whose businesses suffer because shoppers fear to walk the Whitechapel streets. But as the sleuth reveals a vast coverup, he shows that nothing is as it seems. The shopkeepers are a group of radical anarchists, Jack is not a sex-crazed mutilator but a hired killer, and the master plotters are part of a conspiracy to expunge all those who know the identity of Queen Victoria's il legitimate grandchild...
...Preposterous." "Profitable. In 1978, a London writer named Michael Dibdin, 31, will offer The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, pitting me against the 1888 slayer of harlots, Jack the Ripper...
More than ever, to the benefit of their checkbooks and their readers, crime and mystery writers work at other professions. Britain's Don Rumbelow (The Complete Jack the Ripper) is a London bobby; Los Angeles Cop Joe Wambaugh only recently quit the force. In the tradition of Erie Stanley Gardner, many are lawyers, notably Harold Q. Masur (Bury Me Deep), Francis ("Mike") Nevins Jr. (Publish and Perish), Joe Hensley (A Killing in Gold), and, of course, Englishman Michael Gilbert, creator of the Patrick Petrella series and, be it noted, the author of Raymond Chandler's will. The remarkable...