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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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