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Author:
Matthew Pearl
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099512752
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EAN: 9780099512752
Published: 7 Jan 2010
1870. Charles Dickens is dead.
The final instalment of his last manuscript has vanished.
The script was last seen addressed to the publisher whose fortunes depend on it. Since its sudden disappearance the only clue to its whereabouts is a trail of brutal murders.
With his livelihood - indeed his life - in jeopardy, Dickens' publisher sets out to unravel the mystery. The trail leads him from bustling West End theatres, through grimy East End backstreets, into the fug of illicit opium dens, as the crime he hopes to solve ensnares him.
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A plot packed full of incident, coincidences, devious twists and dramatic set pieces
- Daily Mail
A Dickens of a mystery
- New York Daily News
An immensely gifted author
- Dan Brown
Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens is a tour-de-force . . . which grips the reader from harrowing start to tantalizing finish
- Jed Rubenfeld, author of The Interpretation of Murder
An illuminating peep into a vanished world
- Financial Times
Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries, The Poe Shadow and The Technologists. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College.
