Rip is kin to Ichabod, issued earlier; a piquant postscript provides ""travelling notes from a memorandum-book of Mr. Knickerbocker."" Rick Schreiter illustrated, with the same sense of the macabre, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter, in this series. Each of these books is individually designed -- different typeface, placement of text, proportion of pictures to text; each succeeds, in varying degrees, in presenting an inviting appearance to the sometimes required reader.