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Matthew Pearl
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Publisher | Vintage | ||
ISBN | 978-009951275 | ||
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Wendy
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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.
Review
Basically this book is about the hunt evidence of how Charles Dickens intended to to finish his last book: The mystery of Edwin Drood.
Before Dickens died in 1870 he had written only six chapters. Mathew Pearl has written a very clever literary thriller. In fact, in parts it is difficult to tell fact from fiction. The book is based on most things that actually happened, and also people that Dickens met. A gripping story that races along at a tremendous pace. Well plotted and intelligently written. A must for people who enjoy Dicken's work. Brilliant.
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