ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper) (10/02/85)
THE MYCROFT MEMORANDUM by Ray Walsh St. Martin's Press, 1984, $11.95. A book review by Evelyn C. Leeper This is yet another "Sherlock Holmes meets Jack the Ripper" story (the appendix to this novel lists several others, and points out why *this* novel is obviously more to be believed than those). Nothing obviously wrong with it (either factually or stylistically), but nothing to particularly recommend it either. The denouement is predictable--the main difficulty all authors of S. H. meets J. the R. have is that they must explain why the identity of Jack was never revealed, and Walsh has come up with yet another obvious answer. Evelyn C. Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl