Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper

Due to the poor advertisement I didn't realize it was written like a play. Otherwise it was a good story.

The earliest dated piece to depict Sherlock Holmes investigating the Whitechapel murders of 1888 is probably a French play, "Jack l'Éventreur" by Gaston Marot and Louis Péricaud, in 1889, now adapted into English by Frank J Morlock as "Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper". To be accurate, as Jean-Marc Lofficier says in his introduction, "the original play did not feature Sherlock Holmes and Nick Carter, but identifiable facsimiles thereof, for an audience that was already familiar with the Great English Detective and his indomitable American counterpart." If Mr Morlock's version is faithful, then the characters clearly do represent Holmes and Carter - which is remarkable, as in 1889 the former had appeared only in "A Study in Scarlet". The play, like the anonymous 1908 short story that accompanies it, is fascinating as an example of late Victorian melodrama, and unintentionally hilarious in its complete disregard of anything resembling the facts of the case.

Arrived quickley. I didn't know this was written like a play but I don't mind. The story is still intreaging.