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Subject: THE MYCROFT MEMORANDUM by Ray Walsh
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 01:14:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 01:14:55 1985
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                    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
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