In [Dracula, Go Home!, a] seriocomic takeoff on the Dracula theme, Larry Carter, the affable, high school-age narrator, becomes curious enough about a ghoulish-looking hotel guest (who frequents the local cemetery and sports a black cape) to do some checking. Although he eventually discovers his imagination is a bit overactive and Count Dracula has not returned in the person of the creepy Mr. A. R. Claud, Larry does link the guest's unusual activities to some jewel thefts several summers before. An agreeable change of pace from the many problem-oriented books written for those with reading difficulties.

A review of "Dracula, Go Home!" in Booklist (reprinted by permission of the American Library Association; copyright © 1979 by the American Library Association), Vol. 75, No. 18, May 15, 1979, p. 1435.