The Dracula Dossier Author:James Reese, James Reese Stalled in his writing career and feeling overwhelmed by his charismatic, successful boss Sir Henry Irving, Bram Stoker returns to London in the summer of 1888 determined to turn his life around. — Late one night Stoker decides to take a stroll through the streets of Whitechapel, an impoverished district of London known for its many prostitutes a... more »s well as the citizenry crowding its shadowy alleys. Amid the shadows, he spies a seemingly familiar figure, a man resembling a quack American "doctor" of his acquaintance. But before Stoker can be certain, the man disappears. Little does he know that just a few steps away, the crime spree of the century has begun -- a vicious killer has claimed the life of his first victim, a local prostitute. And Stoker somehow becomes the prime suspect. To clear his name, he enlists some of his illustrious friends, including Walt Whitman, Lady Jane Wilde (mother of Oscar), and the million-copy-selling Victorian novelist Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine. When they discover that the murder weapon is a Gurkha knife owned by Stoker and recently stolen from his home, there can be no doubt that the elusive American doctor - Francis Tumblety -- is the very same man terrorizing and taunting London as Jack the Ripper.« less
Try as I might, I just could not get into this one. The writing was just too dry and too dull to keep my interest. It's a shame, since I have liked other books by this author.