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 the arrival of Dickens’s unfinished novel. 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 he hopes will save his venerable business and reveal Daniel’s killer.
Danger and intrigue abound on the journey to England, for which Osgood has chosen Rebecca Sand, Daniel’s older sister, to assist him. 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 Dickens’s 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.
2 comments:
Jeg kjøpte en bok av Matthew Pearl i fjor sommer, The Poe Shadow. Har ikke lest den ennå, men Thea mente at den var ganske dårlig.. Men du er fornøyd med denne? Den høres jo veldig spennende ut!
Jeg har ikke lest noen av de andre bøkene hans, men utfra tittelene (the poe shadow, the dantes club og the last dickens) tror jeg de går litt utpå det samme, så man liker sikkert alle eller ingen. Jeg har bare lest halve men hittil liker jeg den veldig godt og han har fått gode omtalelser:)
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