Bibliograph

The highwayman and Mr. Dickens, an account of the strange events of the Medusa murders : a secret Victorian journal, attributed to Wilkie Collins

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The highwayman and Mr. Dickens, an account of the strange events of the Medusa murders : a secret Victorian journal, attributed to Wilkie Collins

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The highwayman and Mr. Dickens

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

an account of the strange events of the Medusa murders : a secret Victorian journal, attributed to Wilkie Collins

Summary

It was the best of times, it was the worst of crimes . . . The ghastly double murder of a society doctor's beautiful wife and her maid reunites celebrated novelist Charles Dickens, his protegé Wilkie Collins, and the formidable Inspector Field of the Metropolitan Protectives in another brilliant quest for justice. They manage to defend old friend and ex-burglar Tally Ho Thompson, who's arrested at the scene-but then the case takes the men from the pestilential cells of Newgate to the city's steamiest dives. Gamblers, thieves, swells, whores, and Collins's fiery lover, Irish Meg, will all join in chasing a killer who is the stuff of nightmares . .

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Highwayman and Mister Dickens

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