Book description
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.
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.
