The Last Dickens
  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099512752
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $35.00
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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.
  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099512752
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the author

Matthew Pearl

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.

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Praise for The Last Dickens

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

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

An illuminating peep into a vanished world

James Urquhart, Financial Times
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