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Author
Series
Dickens of a crime volume 1
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 3
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
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
London, January 1836. Weeks before the release of his first book, Charles Dickens is intrigued by an invitation to join the exclusive Lightning Club. His initiation in a basement maze takes a wicked turn when he stumbles upon the corpse of Samuel Pickwick, the club's president. With the victim's blood literally on his hands, Charles is locked away in notorious Newgate Prison. It is up to Kate to keep him from the hangman's noose. Forced to puzzle...
Author
Series
Dickens of a crime volume 2
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....
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