The Dracula Dossier: A Novel of Suspense - Softcover

Reese, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061233552 ISBN 13: 9780061233555

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2009

Synopsis

While taking an evening stroll through one of London's most impoverished districts, author Bram Stoker spies a maddeningly familiar figure hurrying through the shadows. Little does he know that, only a few steps away, a vicious killer has claimed his first victim, a local prostitute. The crime spree of the century has begun—and the hapless writer is the prime suspect. Now, to clear his name, Stoker must enlist the aid of illustrious friends—including Walt Whitman, the wildly popular novelist Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, and Lady Jane Wilde, mother of the most notorious literary notable of the day—to hunt down the fiend who is taunting and terrorizing London and calling himself Jack the Ripper.

About this title

About the Author:

James Reese is the author of The Witchery, The Book of Spirits, and The Book of Shadows. He lives in South Florida and Paris, France.

From Booklist:

Sometimes a great premise keeps you going, even when you realize that the author might have done more with it. Here’s an example. The story is classic thriller stuff: in 1888, nearly a decade before he writes the novel Dracula, Bram Stoker leaves the employ of his demanding boss, the famous actor Henry Irving, and comes home to London. Soon after, he becomes embroiled in the Whitechapel murders, and to keep himself from becoming the prime suspect, Stoker has to find out the real identity of Jack the Ripper. It’s the kind of story idea that gets your pulse racing—the creator of the world’s most famous vampire battling the world’s most famous serial killer—but Reese waters the tale down considerably by telling it (in the spirit of Dracula) through a series of journal entries and letters between Stoker and an old friend. Unfortunately, this removes any you-are-there immediacy and turns the reader from a participant in the events into an uninvolved spectator (after the fact). The novel features backs the great premise with some exciting moments, but overall, it’s a disappointment, though Ripper fans will still be curious. --David Pitt

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061233552
• ISBN 13: 9780061233555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368