Sherlock Holmes Analyzes the Case of Jack the Ripper

By Rolando José Olivo

Since a long time, Sherlock Holmes, secretly hired by the President of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, has been investigating the case of the infamous Jack the Ripper. He confirmed that:

● Jack is a diminutive for Jacob, a Jewish name.
● Jack didn ́t like to attack during spring and summer.
● Jack was under thirty, brown-eyed, and neither a doctor nor a surgeon.
● This killer didn ́t work alone. At first, his gang was made up of street children.
● He was also supported by informers, journalists, a police officer and a member of the royal family.
● The first two letters were written by a reporter (Jack’s accomplice), while the third is of Jack’s own handwriting.

Although Holmes knows who Jack is and identified the main members of his organization, in April 1891, he was confronting Professor Moriarty, and when he obtains the final proof that imputes Jack and presents it to his client, due to a confidentiality agreement, and that Jack was arrested, he couldn ́t share this information with the authorities neither reveal the truth to the public.

Several years later, other interests arise, so Sherlock Holmes is authorized to work with Scotland Yard and the secret service office, and close this case. In that sense, at the beginning of 1906, Holmes summons Watson to accompany him, hoping to interrogate Jack and put an end to this investigation.

However, it seems that both the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee and Scotland Yard already knew who Jack was, but their goal was to make him disappear, without the citizens knowing his true identity...

Content:

First part,
The long-awaited visit to Sherlock Holmes

Second part,
The recount of the brutal murders

Third part,
The search for the culprit

Fourth part,
Sherlock Holmes interrogates Jack the Ripper

Fifth part,
The final conclusion

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rolando José Olivo
• Release date: Jul 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215810057

Rolando José Olivo

[e-mail] Instagram: @rolandojolivo Systems Engineer with 3 postgraduate degrees: Master's Degree in Applied Economics, Diploma in General Management and Specialization in Management of Social Programs (Summa Cum Laude). Work experience in companies in the oil sector, occupying these positions: Planning and Logistics Manager, Project Coordinator, Financial Advisor and Consultant. Consultant in the economic and financial area. Writer of books on economics, management, self-help, novels and Christianity, among others.

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Sherlock Holmes Analyzes the Case

of Jack the Ripper

Title: Sherlock Holmes Analyzes the Case of Jack the Ripper.

Copyright © Rolando José Olivo, 2023.

ISBN 979-821-58-1005-7.

USA: Smashwords, Inc., 2023.

Seventh edition of July 2023.

Historical fiction book and detective story.

First edition in Spanish: Sherlock Holmes analiza el caso de Jack el Destripador. 2023.

Translated by Rolando José Olivo.

Warning: this text should only be read by people over 18 years of age, since it contains some expressions that are sensitive, and it is a literary work of historical fiction.

The images of the cover are the following:

A. Public domain:

A.1 The man with bandages on his face. Illustration of John Tenniel (1820-1914).

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ripper_cartoon_punch.jpg

Credit: John Tenniel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tenniel

B. Purchased from Getty Images:

B.1 Jack the Ripper, backwards. ID: 1220204606. April, 28, 2020.

Credit: Denis-Art.

https://www.istockphoto.com/es/foto/jack-el-destripador-en-el-viejo-londres-gm1220204606-357206532?clarity=false

B.2 Cartoons of Jack the Ripper. ID: 473474356. May, 13, 2015.

Credit: duncan1890.

https://www.istockphoto.com/es/vector/jack-el-ripper-es-un-fracaso-1888-detecci%C3%B3n-gm473474356-64779397?clarity=false

B.3 Exterior of a house. ID: 93160252. December, 11, 2006.

Credit: rhump.

https://www.istockphoto.com/es/foto/la-forma-de-pluma-gm93160252-2527881?clarity=false

B.4 Sherlock Holmes and Watson talking. ID: 1404077141. June, 20, 2022.

Credit: RockingStock.

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Likewise, Sherlock Holmes and his related characters are in the public domain. Just like Arsène Lupin and his character, Austin Gilett.

INDEX

First part, The long-awaited visit to Sherlock Holmes

Second part, The recount of the brutal murders

Third part, The search for the culprit

Fourth part, Sherlock Holmes interrogates Jack the Ripper

Fifth part, The final conclusion

First part,

The long-awaited visit to Sherlock Holmes

That morning of January 6, 1906, I was traveling in a hansom cab from my residence in Queen Anne Street to Baker Street, and this was a day that I would never forget. I still remember that meeting, in which Holmes insistently summoned me. It should be noted that in the last years of his career, Holmes and myself were separated for various reasons. It wasn´t just a matter of simple discussions. In this regard, my friend, who was more stubborn and conceited, as he got older, didn´t give up his great obsession of becoming a great writer. But Holmes is a lousy writer and continued with his fantasies of publishing crime essays and a book about the art of the investigation, which he didn´t even know how to start, or how to write it, and despite the fact that he apologized to me for criticizing my writing skills, I had the feeling that he envied that quality that I had in excess and he lacked so much. Even in the previous two years, 1904 and 1905, we went to France to fight another crime master, Arsène Lupin, who was practically the new Moriarty of the European continent. My friend defeated him. Nonetheless, I suffered the worst part, was hospitalized with a broken arm and received a stab very close to my heart. These events also made me reflect on my personal health and safety, forcing me to withdraw from that dangerous profession, which was the main reason for Sherlock Holmes’ existence.

Along the way, I also remembered the last cases I recorded, which weren´t many, and I could rather say that this 20th century marked the decline of the best detective of all time. What a difference from the eighties, with more than twenty-nine documented cases! And the nineties, with more than nineteen published relevant cases! However, I remembered that since the year 1901, in addition to our separation (I could not even live with Holmes after the tragic death of my dear wife, Mary Morstan, knowing that due to the indiscretion of my detective friend, he is also responsible for that death, and I don´t know if I am going to publish the details of that case), I had barely written seven adventures: Priory School, The Three Garridebs, The Illustrious Client, The Blanched Soldier, The Creeping Man, The Mazarin Stone and The Three Gables.

Although I can´t publish the confrontations between Holmes and Lupin because these occurred in France, in cases that are the responsibility of the French police, and there is only one writer, authorized by the institutions of that beautiful land, to write and publish these sensational stories. I am referring to Mr. Maurice LeBlanc, who will also be considered as the biographer of Arsène Lupin.

Also, I was concerned that in recent years, Sherlock Holmes, somehow repeatedly betrayed and deceived by that damned woman, Irene Adler, whose real surname is Adair, had involved. Perhaps due to emotional stress, facing the day-to-day activities of his thankless profession, along with a growing level of disappointment and frustration. The truth is that the appreciated and rebellious Sherlock Holmes, in this last stage of his professional career, didn´t mind crossing the red line that criminals disrespect, and, as I warned in the story of The Illustrious Client, he hired ex-criminals as informants and was going to be tried for stealing a valuable object from the Baron Adelbert Gruner. I didn´t even know that he was using me to steal that book, and if I had, I would have refused to collaborate with him. But that is another story...

In short, in my hyperactive mind, which handles countless ideas in a disorderly manner, all kinds of thoughts crossed. From the joys and satisfactions for the opportunities received by participating in many investigations with Holmes and having the privilege of being his assistant and biographer, even praised and recognized by the fearsome Lupin, to the disappointments due to the fatal outcome that other investigations had, including: The Five Orange Pips and The Dancing Men; in which, unfortunately, our clients were killed. There are also other cases of kidnapping and murder, in which Holmes had a lot of evidence, but in some, he could not find the culprits, and in others, despite the fact that he presented his discoveries to Scotland Yard and the suspects were arrested, they were released by legal technicalities, or because their defense attorneys objected some of the circumstantial evidence.

At that time, I also remembered that Sherlock Holmes had become obsessed with two other cases. Of course, he asked me to write them.

The first is The Story of the Lost Special, in which a train, with a Central American politician and his bodyguard, practically disappeared into thin air. The tragedy occurred in June of the year 1890 and attracted great attention from the local and continental newspapers, because that man was carrying documents that compromised many rulers of Great Britain and Europe, and if he had revealed them, an inconceivable