The angel
Subtitle: a Grand and Batchelor Victorian mystery
By: MJ Trow
Edition: First world edition.
Series: Grand and Batchelor series
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781780290898
Subjects: Fiction; Private investigators; Murder; Investigation; History
Description: "June 1870. The world-famous author Charles Dickens has been found dead in his summerhouse where he had been hard at work on his final, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Did he die of natural causes -- or is there something more sinister behind his sudden demise? George Sala, Dickens' biographer, is convinced his friend was murdered -- and he has hired private investigators Matthew Grand and James Batchelor to prove it. Could Dickens' death have something to do with his unconventional private life? Who is the mysterious woman who appears at his funeral? If they are to uncover the truth, Grand and Batchelor must leave no stone unturned. But are they prepared for the shocking secrets some of those unturned stones will reveal...?