Much of the Pickwick Club is present, and not in such harmlessly fun form as in the original. For instance, when Charles, imprisoned in dreaded Newgate, receives visitors, he exclaims that he is "returned to life," just like a certain prisoner who appears in Dickens's 1859 novel A TALE OF TWO CITIES.
Dickens dies in Newgate or on the scaffold, because what's one rookie small-time journalist, more or less? Luckily, to Kate, he means something more.įans of Dickens will have fun catching allusions that suggest that the mystery in which Dickens is involved informs his later works.
How did Charles Dickens end up in this predicament? Having been invited to join the arcane and exclusive Lightning Club, he follows its nautilus-shaped puzzle invitation right into a dead body, that of club leader Mr. Charles Dickens trying to exonerate Charles from a murder charge for which he has been imprisoned in the dreaded Newgate. The fourth installment of Heather Redmond's Charles Dickens murder mysteries THE PICKWICK MURDERS: A DICKENS OF A CRIME finds Miss Kate Hogarth, soon to be Mrs.
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