The Last Dickens - Softcover

Matthew Pearl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099512750 ISBN 13: 9780099512752

Publisher: Vintage Books USA, 2010

Synopsis

News of the untimely death of Charles Dickens reaches James R. Osgood at his American publisher. Expecting the arrival of the latest instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and suspicious of unscrupulous New York publishers keen to get their hands on the novel, Osgood sends his clerk, Daniel Sands, to await its arrival. When Daniel's body is found by the docks, the manuscript is nowhere to be found, Osgood must embark on a transatlantic quest that leads him to the dangerous streets of London in order to unearth the rest of Dickens' final mystery and solve another of his own.

About this title

About the Author:

Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries. His other books include The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Review:

"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" -- James Urquhart * Financial Times *

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0099512750
• ISBN 13: 9780099512752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464