The last Dickens

By Matthew Pearl

Subjects: Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Manuscripts, Dickens, charles, 1812-1870, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, Publishers and publishing, Publishers and publishing, fiction

Description: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.