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The Last Dickens

by Matthew Pearl

A Victorian publishing mystery built around Dickens’s unfinished novel

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A Victorian publishing mystery built around Dickens’s unfinished novel

Set in Boston in 1870, Matthew Pearl’s historical thriller makes the disappearance of Charles Dickens’s final manuscript the hinge of a murder investigation. Publisher James Osgood searches for both the missing pages and the truth behind his clerk Daniel Sand’s death, with Daniel’s sister Rebecca alongside him. The premise brings the world of nineteenth-century publishing into contact with a dangerous urban underworld, while Dickens’s unfinished work gives the mystery its literary stakes. The story’s central questions—who killed Daniel, and where did the manuscript go?—connect the historical setting to a crime-driven search.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in historical thrillers set in nineteenth-century Boston.
  • Readers drawn to mysteries involving literary history, publishing, and a missing manuscript.
  • Readers seeking a crime investigation with a sister and her brother’s employer working together.

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Literary historyPublishingMurder investigationMissing manuscriptsVictorian Boston

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Book overview

Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickens's unfinished final manuscript. But Daniel never returns, and when his body is discovered by the docks, Osgood must embark on a quest to find the missing end to the novel and unmask the killer. With Daniel's sister Rebecca at his side, Osgood races the clock through a dangerous web of opium dens, sadistic thugs, and literary lions to solve a genius's last mystery and save his own-and Rebecca's-lives.
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