Time After Time

In 1979 Karl Alexander burst upon the literary world with a brash, exciting novel with a unique concept: H. G. Wells, the famous, bestselling author of such sensations as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds had actually invented a time machine. When H.G. Wells showed his friends his fantastic time machine he never suspected that his college friend, Leslie John Stevenson, was in truth the Jack the Ripper. But, when Scotland Yard detectives show up at Wells's house looking for Stevenson, he steals the machine and flees to the future-1979 San Francisco. Knowing that he was responsible for the infamous murderer's escape, Wells pursues the Ripper into the future. Once in San Francisco, Wells realizes that he must now save a city, and a particular lovely young woman, from a new reign of horror at the hands of the feared Terror of Whitechapel.

Karl Alexander was an American writer. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he was the son and nephew of screenwriters-his father wrote the screenplay for Old Yeller, and his uncle wrote the screenplay for Ben-Hur-and worked on a number of films himself. In addition to Time After Time, Alexander wrote six other novels including The Long Shadow, Time-Crossed Lovers, Papa and Fidel and Jaclyn the Ripper, the sequel to Time After Time.