Who won the fight then? Sherlock Holmes? Jack the Ripper?
2006-07-25 03:48:22 · 8 answers · asked by Professor Franklin 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
# THE LAST SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY (Jack the Ripper) (1978)
(Michael Dibden)
Not an original Holmes story but good fun. It seems Holmes will end up on anybody's case because he is such a great fictional character.
2006-07-25 06:21:40 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arthur Conan Doyle never used the character of Jack the Ripper in any of his Sherlock Holmes stories. Any confrontation between the two would have to be in stories written later by someone who borrowed Doyle's character for their own work.
There have been many authors who have used Doyle's characters, carrying on the Holmes tradition. Some of them are very good, imitating Doyle's style and the spirit of the original stories. And, of course, some of them are terrible hack work.
2006-07-25 06:28:40 · answer #2 · answered by Spel Chekker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's actually a Holmes story out there where Holmes IS the Ripper!
He commits the crimes in order to test himself against the police.
2006-07-27 16:11:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a book called The Whitechapel Horrors, where Holmes is trpyping to find the Ripper, but they never meet face to face. And it's not Canon.
2006-07-25 12:54:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they could never fight man-to-man, except in the pages of a novel. ...because Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
2006-07-25 04:23:43 · answer #5 · answered by ModelFlyerChick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Holmes was an excellent boxer, an expert with the singlestick and had considerable strength in his lean frame, so he would have given a good account of himself, but the two never met in any of The Canon.
2006-07-25 04:22:34 · answer #6 · answered by Stuart King 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never in a Doylse story, but as others have pointed out there are stories by other authors about such an occurance. I also recommend the movie "Murder By Decree" starring Christopher Plummer and James Mason as Homes and Watson.
2006-07-25 07:57:23 · answer #7 · answered by Lady Macbeth 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you read the Ellery Queen book about it, you might get your answer....Don't recall what it's called though.
2006-07-25 04:29:05 · answer #8 · answered by Hilaire Belloc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋