After the untimely death of Charles Dickens, his American publisher, Fields & Osgood, sends a trusted clerk to recover the manuscript of Dicken's last unfinished novel, but when the clerk is found dead on the docks without the manuscript, James Osgood decides to make the voyage to England, with the clerk's older sister Rebecca in tow, only to pick up the trail of a murderer.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: osgood, james r, (james ripley), 1836-1892, fiction, dickens, charles, 1812-1870, manuscripts, publishers and publishing, fiction, historical fiction, mystery fiction, london (england), fiction