The Last Dickens
Author | : Matthew Pearl |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780812978025 |
ISBN-13 | : 0812978021 |
Rating | : 4/5 (021 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Last Dickens written by Matthew Pearl and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickens’s 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 Daniel’s sister Rebecca at his side, Osgood races the clock through a dangerous web of opium dens, sadistic thugs, and literary lions to solve a genius’s last mystery and save his own–and Rebecca’s–lives.