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Fiction A manuscript to kill for HOLMES ENTANGLED By Gordon McAlpine 215 pp. Seventh Street Books Reviewed by Eric Petersen Gordon McAlpine, the master of avant garde mystery metafiction, is back with a new novel. His previous novels, Woman With a Blue Pencil and Hammett Unwritten , are also reviewed on this site. Holmes Entangled opens in Buenos Aires, circa 1943. After completing his shift, Jorge Luis Borges, assistant librarian at the Miguel Cane Municipal Library, quickly makes his way to the office of a private detective. In his encounter with the detective, Borges (who somehow knows the exact amount of money in the gumshoe’s wallet) claims that someone is stalking him – an assassin intent on killing him. Why? Because Borges is in possession of a rare manuscript that someone would kill for. The manuscript, called Uncertainty – a True Account , was written by Sherlock Holmes – the real Sherlock Holmes – in the late 1920s. It’s a memoir of the then 73-year-old Holmes’s strangest ...