The Last Dickens

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Pearl, Pearl Matthew
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.01.2010
• EAN: 9780099512752
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951275-2
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Crime, Historical fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary