The Last Dickens

The Last Dickens: A Novel by Matthew Pearl

I'm a sucker for stories that seemingly bring me closer to my favorite characters or authors, and The Last Dickens is exactly that...
Set in 1870's Boston, Matthew Pearl weaves a story of murder and mystery surrounding the unfinished work of Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood. When Dickens' American publishers hear of the author's untimely death, they are anxious to get their hands on the last installment of the tale before anyone else to keep their small publishing company afloat. But it soon becomes a matter of life-and-death when the young man sent to retrieve the installment from the Boston docks is found murdered.
Matthew Pearl is also the author of The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow.

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Reviewed by Korie B.