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The Pickwick murders / Heather Redmond.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Redmond, Heather, Dickens of a crime ; Publisher: New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First Kensington hardcover editionDescription: viii, 324 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781496734280
  • 1496734289
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: 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.Summary: 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 her way through a fiendish series of baffling riddles sent to her in anonymous poison pen letters, Kate must keep her wits about her to corner the real killer. -- adapted from jacket
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Mystery REDMOND, HEATHER DC 4 Available 33111010747315
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In a reimagining of Charles Dickens' classic The Pickwick Papers , Heather Redmond's fourth Victorian-era mystery in the Dickens of a Crime series finds a young Charles tossed into Newgate Prison for a murder he didn't commit, and his fiancee Kate Hogarth striving to clear his name...


London, January 1836- Just weeks before the release of his first book, Charles is intrigued by an invitation to join the exclusive Lightning Club. But 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.

Now it's up to Kate to keep her framed fiance from the hangman's noose. To solve this labyrinthine mystery, she is forced to puzzle her way through a fiendish series of baffling riddles sent to her in anonymous poison pen letters. With the help of family and friends, she must keep her wits about her to corner the real killer-before time runs out and Charles Dickens meets a dead end...

Sequel to: A Christmas carol murder.

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.

Includes a book club reading guide.

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 her way through a fiendish series of baffling riddles sent to her in anonymous poison pen letters, Kate must keep her wits about her to corner the real killer. -- adapted from jacket

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