The last Dickens
Subtitle: a novel
By: Matthew Pearl
Series: Random House reader's circle; Reader's circle (Random House (Firm))
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780812978025
Subjects: Publishers and publishing; Manuscripts; Fiction
Description: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
Notes: Includes reading group questions and topics for discussion (p. [395]-396).