The Last Dickens

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'Matthew Pearl is the new shining star of literary fiction - an immensely gifted author' - Dan Brown 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. 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.

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 *