I thought this book had potential. I love Dickens and well-written mysteries. This book is about Dickens and Wilkie Collins getting wrapped up in a murder mystery; so it seemed like a perfect combination.Unfortunately, it was very poorly written and all mystery was removed from the book about hal...
I really didn't like this first entry in the series but liked the behind the scenes look at the lives of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Palmer is a respected historian on Dickens and I fear the historian in him took over, making it feel dry. These arid spells robbed the other more intriguing...
Someone is threatening Angela Burdett-Coutts, the banker, feminist, and philanthropist, one of the richest, most powerful women in England. Soon after she alerts her friend Charles Dickens to the threats, the Coutts Bank is robbed, and a member of the Women's Emancipation Society is found strangl...
One dank November night, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins are called to a part of London notorious for its opium dens -- and where an Oxford History Don has been found murdered. With the help of Charles Dodgson, an old schoolmate of Wilkie's, they travel to Oxford, and learn that the murder is ...