`Elementry my dear reader`

469 pages (including footnotes),lots of nights of late night reading and i have finally finished `The further adventures of Sherlock Holmes` The Whitechapel Horrors by Edward B. Hanna.

Let me start by saying this was an excellent! read. I was clinging onto every word and couldnt wait to get started on the next chapter...However...

SPOILERS BELOW! if you havent read the book.










Although Holmes knows the identity of the Whitechapel killer he refuses to name him and leaves the reader hanging!. Now some people will claim that this is very clever of the author, leaving the reader to decide for themselves and leaving the ending open....I dont agree.
Investing time into a long spanning adventure such as this you want a payoff at the end and it just feels as though the author couldnt be bothered to commit to a suspect . The one person you want to solve a mystery and explain its outcome to you is Sherlock Holmes. The one person the reader wants to catch the villian and give him good old fashioned British justice is Sherlock Holmes. You dont get that with this novel.
Holmes and Edward B Hanna basically says to the reader "We know who the killer is ner-ner" While sticking 2 fingers up and running away. Its all well and good saying ` well the author leaves it up to the reader to decide` however that is very lazy. What if all books ended this way? What if A Christmas Carol ended with Scrooge being shown his grave by the ghost of xmas yet to come?.


Im pretty sure i know Who Sherlock Holmes and Edward B. Hanna wanted the reader to think the Ripper was....but im not telling.....so ner!