In The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (1903), Holmes says to Watson, “You remember … Bert Stevens, who wanted us to get him off in ’87? Was there ever a more mild-mannered, Sunday-school young man?”
In my latest book, Holmes of Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes is employed to help a young man, Bert Stevens, who is arrested for a series of heinous murders.
This story is loosely based on the Thames Mysteries or sometimes referred to as the Embankment Murders, that took place in London from 1887 to 1889. A number of dismembered victims, all women, whose bodies were discovered in or near the Thames. None of the murders were solved. Some speculated that these murders were linked to the Jack the Ripper killings in Whitechapel. Because of the difference in modus operandi, the police believed there was no connection between the two. Other similar murders took place between 1873 and 1902.
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