The Last Dickens: A Novel
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Matthew Pearl. (2009). The Last Dickens: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Matthew Pearl. 2009. The Last Dickens: A Novel. Books on Tape.

Matthew Pearl, The Last Dickens: A Novel. Books on Tape, 2009.

Matthew Pearl. The Last Dickens: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2009.

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   • bioText: Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow, and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales. 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.
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In his most enthralling novel yet, the critically acclaimed author Matthew Pearl reopens one of literary history’s greatest mysteries. The Last Dickens is a tale filled with the dazzling twists and turns, the unerring period details, and the meticulous research that thrilled readers of the 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 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.

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     "Just what do the seemingly disparate parts of the story have to do with one another? What the publisher becomes embroiled in, in London, is far more complicated than simply manuscript detection. A whole world of life-and-death nefariousness awaits both him and the reader, who will be well rewarded."
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   • content: "Well executed and tightly controlled...extremely clever."
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   • content: "Pearl's plot is ambitious and satisfying, involving a murder and a missing manuscript, the opium trade, the emerging publishing business In New York and Boston, and the predicament of single, divorced women in America in the 19th century. Fans of Dickens will appreciate Pearl's literary allusions and his thoroughly researched characterizations..."
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   • source: Library Journal
   • content: "Strongly recommended... Pearl enriches his story through an in-depth knowledge of Dickens's career and literary works."
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   • content: The author of THE DANTE CLUB dazzles with this mystery about the publication of Charles Dickens's last work, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, which arrives in America in serial form, until the last installment goes missing. On the eve of Dickens's death, publisher James Osgood finds himself on a trail of murder and depravity, including involvement with the opium trade, in his quest to secure the lost ending. From Osgood's point of view, Paul Michael methodically recreates the atmosphere of the period and recounts details of Dickens's vast popularity in the U.S., then shifts timbre and expression for colorful portrayals of the other characters. Much more is involved than merely discovering DROOD's ending. This well-researched story unfolds with action-packed suspense, haunting imagery, romance, and exotic travel. A.W. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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     January 12, 2009
     Bestseller Pearl (The Poe Shadow
     ) delivers a period thriller that has the misfortune to fall short of the high standard set by Dan Simmons's Drood
     (Reviews, Nov. 24), which also centers on Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
     . After the author dies in 1870, a series of suspicious deaths leads Dickens's U.S. publisher, James Osgood, to suspect they may be connected with the solution to the novel's puzzle. Accompanied by attractive bookkeeper Rebecca Sand, the sister of one of the victims, Osgood travels from Boston to England to seek clues to Drood
     's missing conclusion. The action shifts to India, where Charles's son Francis is a superintendent of the Bengal Mounted Police, and back in time, to the novelist's last American tour in 1867. Some awkward prose distracts (“There were several other grim faces at dinner that, like some imperceptible force, spread a dark cloud over the levity”), while the ending may strike some readers as a cop-out.

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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.
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