Dickens of a crime
Author
Author
Series
Dickens of a crime volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
1835. Young journalist Charles Dickens is invited to dinner at the estate of the Evening Chronicle's co-editor. He is smitten with his boss's daughter, vivacious Kate Hogarth. They are having the best of times when a scream shatters the evening. In the neighbors' home, Miss Christiana Lugoson lies unconscious on the floor. By morning, she will be dead. When Charles hears of a very similar mysterious death a year ago to the date, also a young woman,...
Author
Series
Dickens of a crime volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"London, June 1835: In the interest of being a good neighbor, Charles checks in on Miss Haverstock, the elderly spinster who resides in the flat above his. But as the young journalist and his fiance Kate ascend the stairs, they are assaulted by the unmistakable smell of death. Upon entering the woman's quarters, they find her decomposing corpse propped up, adorned in a faded gown that looks like it could have been her wedding dress, had she been married....
Author
Series
Dickens of a crime volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
London, December 1835. Charles and Kate are out with friends and family for a chilly night of caroling and good cheer. Their singing is interrupted by a body plummeting from an upper window of a house-- his neck wrapped in chains. The dead man, Jacob Harley, was the business partner of the resident of the house, an unpleasant codger who owns a counting house, one Emmanuel Screws. Before Dickens can investigate further, Harley's corpse is stolen--...
Author
Series
Dickens of a crime volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When his initiation into the Lightning Club takes a murderous turn, Charles Dickens is accused of the crime and is locked away in Newgate Prison where he must rely on his fiancé and her sleuthing skills to save him from the hangman's noose.
Author
Series
Dickens of a crime volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Attending a boarding school at the largess of Charles Dickens, three orphans known for their exploits in scavenging go missing from outside London along with a treasure map.