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Matthew Pearl's
newest novel, now in bookstores everywhere.
With The
Last Dickens, Matthew
Pearl reopens one of literary history’s greatest
mysteries in his most enthralling novel yet, a tale filled with
the dazzling twists and turns, the unerring period details, and
the meticulous research that thrilled readers of bestsellers
The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow.
Boston, 1870. When news of
Charles Dickens’s untimely
death reaches the office of his
struggling American publisher,
Fields & Osgood, partner James
Osgood sends his trusted clerk
Daniel Sand to await Dickens’s
unfinished novel–The Mystery
of Edwin Drood.
But when
Daniel’s body is discovered by
the docks and the manuscript
is nowhere to be found, Osgood
must embark on a transatlantic
quest to unearth the novel that
will save his venerable business and reveal Daniel’s killer.
Danger and intrigue abound on the journey, for which Osgood has
chosen Rebecca
Sand, Daniel’s older sister, to help clear her brother’s name and
achieve their singular mission. As they attempt to uncover Dickens’s
final mystery, Osgood and Rebecca find themselves racing the clock through
a dangerous
web of literary lions and drug dealers, sadistic thugs and blue bloods,
and competing members of the inner circle. They soon realize that understanding
Dickens’s lost ending is a matter of life and death, and the hidden key to
stopping a murderous mastermind. The resulting twists and turns are "well-executed
and tightly controlled" (The Los Angeles Times).
Booklist calls The Last Dickens "a brilliant, exciting thriller" that "aligns perfectly with"
The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow. The London Daily Mail calls the novel a "gripping read" that "ensures excitement."
Hear actor
Paul Michael read from the first chapter of the novel
(clip taken from the audio
book).
All
original materials © Matthew Pearl.
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