Dust and Shadow

Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson

Author	Lyndsay Faye
Language	English
Genre	Mystery novels
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	2009
Media type	Print (Hardback
ISBN	1-4165-8330-0 (first edition, hardback)

Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by Lyndsay Faye which pits Sherlock Holmes against Jack the Ripper.^[1]

The book is Faye's first novel^[2] and it has the blessing of Conan Doyle's heirs.^[1]

Reception

Reviews of Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H Watson have been largely positive.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Tim Rutton, writing for the Los Angeles Times, stated "she gets the critical component -- Watson's voice -- right."^[1]

Caleb Carr, who himself penned a Sherlock Holmes pastiche entitled The Italian Secretary, remarked "Where others have failed, Lyndsay Faye's extremely impressive debut novel succeeds, on every level, providing thrilling entertainment without blatant exploitation."^[6]

The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography gave the novel an 8.9 out of 10.^[7]

References

1 2 3 'Dust and Shadow' by Lyndsay Faye at Los Angeles Times
↑ Lyndsay Faye bio
↑ "Dust and Shadow by Lyndsay Faye". The Foggy Foot Review. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
↑ "Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson". Baker Street Reviews. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
↑ "Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson". Goodreads. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
↑ Dust and Shadows at Simon & Schuster
↑ Dust and Shadow at CCLaP

External links

Lyndsay Faye's official website

Jack the Ripper in fiction

Seminal works

Letters

Film

Waxworks (1924)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1944)
Man in the Attic (1953)
Jack the Ripper (1959)
Lulu (1962)
A Study in Terror (1965)
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
The Ruling Class (1972)
What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975)
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Time After Time (1979)
Jack's Back (1988)
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Deadly Advice (1994)
Ripper (2001)
From Hell (2001)
Bad Karma (2002)
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
The Lodger (2009)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)

Parody

Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Music

Stage

Earth Spirit (1895 play)
Pandora's Box (1904 play)
Lulu (1937 opera)
The Lodger (1960 opera)
The Ruling Class (1968 play)

Comics

Literature

Sherlock Holmes	The Last Sherlock Holmes Story The Whitechapel Horrors Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography Dust and Shadow The Ripper Legacy

Short stories	"A Toy for Juliette" "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World"

Other	A Feast Unknown Anno Dracula Blood and Fog I, Ripper Matrix A Night in the Lonesome October Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed Time After Time Phantom Blood Night of the Ripper Darkside Lifeblood Lost The Witches of Chiswick Broken Dracula the Un-dead

Series	Jack the Ripper (1973) The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (1976) Jack the Ripper (1988) Sanctuary (2007–2011) Whitechapel (2009–2013) Ripper Street (2012–present)

Episodes	"Wolf in the Fold" (1967) "Comes the Inquisitor" (1995) "Ripper" (1999) "Sanctuary for All" (2008)

Video games

Jack the Ripper (1987)
Ripper (1996)
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (1999)
Shadow Man (1999)
MediEvil 2 (2000)
Jack the Ripper (2003)
Mystery in London: On the Trail of Jack the Ripper (2007)
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (2009)
The Ripper (canceled)
Jack the Ripper (2015)

Other

Sherlock Holmes novels by people other than Arthur Conan Doyle

Young Sherlock Holmes by Andy Lane	Death Cloud (2010) Red Leech (2010) Black Ice (2011) Fire Storm (2011)

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr	"The Adventure of the Seven Clocks" (1954) "The Adventure of the Gold Hunter" (1954) "The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers" (1954) "The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle" (1954) "The Adventure of the Black Baronet" (1954) "The Adventure of the Sealed Room" (1954 "The Adventure of Foulkes Rath" (1954) "The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" (1954) "The Adventure of the Dark Angels" (1954) "The Adventure of the Two Women" (1954) "The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" (1954) "The Adventure of the Red Widow" (1954)

by Nicholas Meyer	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974) The West End Horror (1976) The Canary Trainer (1993)

Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King	The Beekeeper's Apprentice A Monstrous Regiment of Women A Letter of Mary The Moor O Jerusalem Justice Hall The Game Locked Rooms The Language of Bees The God of the Hive Pirate King Garment of Shadows Dreaming Spies

by David Stuart Davies	Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (1991) The Tangled Skein (1995) The Scroll of the Dead (1998) Shadow of the Rat (1999) The Veiled Detective (2004) The Devil's Promise (2014) The Ripper Legacy (2016)

by Barrie Roberts	Sherlock Holmes and the Man from Hell (1997) Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (2002)

by Anthony Horowitz	The House of Silk (2011) Moriarty (2014)

Other works	Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897) A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902) The Ultimate Crime (1976) The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) "The Doctor's Case" (1987) The Whitechapel Horrors (1993) All-Consuming Fire (1994) The Strange Case of Mrs. Hudson's Cat (1997) The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (1999) Shadows Over Baker Street (2003) "A Study in Emerald" (2003) Sherlock Holmes: The Way of All Flesh (2004) The Final Solution (2004) A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005) The Italian Secretary (2005) Erasing Sherlock (2006) Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (2006) Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong (2007) The Boy Sherlock Holmes (2007–12) Gaslight series (2008) Dust and Shadow (2009) The Devil and Sherlock Holmes (2010) Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (2011) Dead Man's Land (2013)

Parody	The Enola Holmes Mysteries Everybody's Favorite Duck The Adventure of the Peerless Peer The Fossil Island Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries Sherlock Bones Solar Pons Stoker and Holmes Thuppariyum Sambu

Related	Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes

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