Bloodguilty

Library Journal

Cryptic prose, wide-roving action, and breathless sensationalism characterize this first novel. California publisher Harry Chrysler returns from a trip to London with a previously unknown diary of one Dr. John Watson, which proves not only that Watson and Sherlock Holmes really existed but also that they solved the Jack-the-Ripper case. Present-day evil forces related to the case now seek to acquire and destroy the diary, so Chrysler and investigative writer Dave Conway combine wits. Of possible interest to fans of Conan Doyle and followers of Jack the Ripper, but mostly derivative and superficial.