The last Dickens: a novel
β Scribed by Matthew Pearl
- Publisher
- Random House, Inc.
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 353 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickenss sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickenss unfinished final manuscript. But Daniel never returns, and when his body is discovered by the docks, Osgood must embark on a quest to find the missing end to the novel and unmask the killer. With Daniels sister Rebecca at his side, Osgood races the clock through a dangerous web of opium dens, sadistic thugs, and literary lions to solve a geniuss last mystery and save his ownand Rebeccaslives.
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