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...LAST SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY by Michael Dibdin Pantheon; 192 pages...
...SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. DRACULA by Loren D. Estleman Doubleday; 214 pages...
...damp October night in 18 -when the wind howled like a child in the chimney. In those days Sherlock Holmes kept a child in the chimney for comparison purposes...
...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...
...same year," Holmes went on, "a young American novelist, Mr. Loren D. Estleman, 25, will publish Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula. " "But you have already annihilated such creatures in the Adventure of the Sussex Vampire. " evertheless, if a man goes to bat for me, the least I can do is listen to his tale. And, in point of fact, both Dibdin and Estleman observe the law, grant them that. As the mystery writer Dorothy Sayers will write of the Sherlockian pastiche, "The rule of the game is that it must be played as solemnly as a county cricket match at Lord...