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The novelization of the 1965 film. Part Ellery Queen, part Paul W. Fairman. Fairman wrote the novelization (as an unpublished manuscript by John Watson in which Holmes takes on Jack the Ripper) and Queen wrote the framing story (in which Ellery reads the manuscript and comes to his own conclusions). Both segments are enjoyable in their own way, but in the end, this mystery doesn't add up. Though Fairman does a reasonable job capturing Holmes and the period, he completely ignores everything known about the Ripper, turning the whole thing into a cynical marketing ploy.
The novelization of the 1965 film. Part Ellery Queen, part Paul W. Fairman. Fairman wrote the novelization (as an unpublished manuscript by John Watson in which Holmes takes on Jack the Ripper) and Queen wrote the framing story (in which Ellery reads the manuscript and comes to his own conclusions). Both segments are enjoyable in their own way, but in the end, this mystery doesn't add up. Though Fairman does a reasonable job capturing Holmes and the period, he completely ignores everything known about the Ripper, turning the whole thing into a cynical marketing ploy.
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