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Charles Dickens combined some of a many noted characters in English novel and was also a larger-than-life particular himself, a champion of a underdog. The anthology presents a brew of specifically consecrated new stories and obtuse famous reprints, by writers such as Hilary Bonner, Anne Perry, Charles Todd, Kate Ellis, Alanna Knight, Martin Edwards and Gillian Linscott. Many of a stories underline one or some-more of Dickens's characters, as a sleuth or as a plant of crime. Others are set in Dickens's genuine life with him questioning a crime or people closely compared with him, such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell or Hablot Browne — including during his tours of America. Oliver Twist and a Artful Dodger accommodate adult again in after years to solve an age-old crime. Just what became of a crook that fearful immature Pip in Great Expectations? Was he unequivocally guilty, or framed? Inspector Bucket from Bleak House finds himself adult opposite a biggest rapist mind of his day.
"'Miss Havisham's Revenge' by Alanna Knight, in that we learn a partial Estella Havisham played in a predestine of Bentley Drummle 'Murder in Murray's Court' by David Stuart Davies, in that Oliver Twist has to assistance a Artful Dodger who has been indicted of murder 'The Thorn of Anxiety' by Keith Miles, in that a poser of Edwin Drood is during final solved 'The Divine Nature' by Kate Ellis, in that David Copperfield finds himself questioning a disappearance of Edward Murdstone 'The Letter' by Joan Lock, in that a skills of Inspector Bucket are once again put to a exam in elucidate a crime that apparently never happened. 'Reveals a strength and skill of this sub-section of a whodunnit genre... Great fun.' Good Book Guide"
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2068914 in Books
- Published on: 2007-11-09
- Format: Bargain Price
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 512 pages
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"'Miss Havisham's Revenge' by Alanna Knight, in that we learn a partial Estella Havisham played in a predestine of Bentley Drummle 'Murder in Murray's Court' by David Stuart Davies, in that Oliver Twist has to assistance a Artful Dodger who has been indicted of murder 'The Thorn of Anxiety' by Keith Miles, in that a poser of Edwin Drood is during final solved 'The Divine Nature' by Kate Ellis, in that David Copperfield finds himself questioning a disappearance of Edward Murdstone 'The Letter' by Joan Lock, in that a skills of Inspector Bucket are once again put to a exam in elucidate a crime that apparently never happened. 'Reveals a strength and skill of this sub-section of a whodunnit genre... Great fun.' Good Book Guide"
About a Author
Mike Ashley is editor of several volumes of The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, and The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits and The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits among others.
I adore chronological whodunit anthologies. No one does a improved pursuit of putting together such anthologies than Mike Ashley. Whenever we see a new brief story collection with Ashley's name attached, we start reaching for my wallet; Ashley knows his business! Case in point: DICKENSIAN WHODUNITS, an talented collection of 22 murder mysteries revolving around a good Victorian novelist.
The stories in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF DICKENSIAN WHODUNITS inserts possibly Charles Dickens or one of a many characters he combined into several murder poser plots. In 'The Marshalsea Handicap,' for instance, Dickens is a think in a poisoning that took place in Marshalsea Prison. In tangible fact, Dickens' family was cramped to a really same place due to Dickens' father going into debt. In 'Encounter in a Dark,' Dickens, furloughed America, meets Edgar Allan Poe and, naturally, murder ensues. 'The Tidal' mixes story with fiction, involving Dickens in a railway collision - that indeed took place - followed by ruthless attacks on several of a collision victims. Dickens investigates and turns adult a guilty party.
The other stories in this 2007 Carroll & Graf volume engage Dickensian characters such as Scrooge, Oliver Twist, Little Nell, Paul Dombey and David Copperfield in murder many foul. Scrooge, for example, attempts to uncover a disfigured story of murder while concurrently safeguarding a little baby who's an trusting member in a immorality doings. Those who desired THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP will find a totally opposite Little Nell available them in 'The End of Little Nell' story; prop yourselves, folks! Oliver Twist tries to assistance his aged friend, a Artful Dodger, kick a murder swat in 'Murder in Murray's Court' and so on.
If you've examination Dickens' novels, we will suffer a stories in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF DICKENSIAN WHODUNITS all a more. If not, a stories are still clever, interesting jaunts into Victorian murder, Victorian multitude and history's many famous novelist.
In short, another excellent bid by Mike Ashley. Highly recommended.
This was an interesting collection of mysteries. The brief stories were finished in a character of Dickens' novels from 'Mr Pickwick' to 'Bleak House'. Good for an aeroplane or a metro.
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A Fine Kettle of Victorian Whodunits!
By Michael OConnor
I adore chronological whodunit anthologies. No one does a improved pursuit of putting together such anthologies than Mike Ashley. Whenever we see a new brief story collection with Ashley's name attached, we start reaching for my wallet; Ashley knows his business! Case in point: DICKENSIAN WHODUNITS, an talented collection of 22 murder mysteries revolving around a good Victorian novelist.
The stories in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF DICKENSIAN WHODUNITS inserts possibly Charles Dickens or one of a many characters he combined into several murder poser plots. In 'The Marshalsea Handicap,' for instance, Dickens is a think in a poisoning that took place in Marshalsea Prison. In tangible fact, Dickens' family was cramped to a really same place due to Dickens' father going into debt. In 'Encounter in a Dark,' Dickens, furloughed America, meets Edgar Allan Poe and, naturally, murder ensues. 'The Tidal' mixes story with fiction, involving Dickens in a railway collision - that indeed took place - followed by ruthless attacks on several of a collision victims. Dickens investigates and turns adult a guilty party.
The other stories in this 2007 Carroll & Graf volume engage Dickensian characters such as Scrooge, Oliver Twist, Little Nell, Paul Dombey and David Copperfield in murder many foul. Scrooge, for example, attempts to uncover a disfigured story of murder while concurrently safeguarding a little baby who's an trusting member in a immorality doings. Those who desired THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP will find a totally opposite Little Nell available them in 'The End of Little Nell' story; prop yourselves, folks! Oliver Twist tries to assistance his aged friend, a Artful Dodger, kick a murder swat in 'Murder in Murray's Court' and so on.
If you've examination Dickens' novels, we will suffer a stories in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF DICKENSIAN WHODUNITS all a more. If not, a stories are still clever, interesting jaunts into Victorian murder, Victorian multitude and history's many famous novelist.
In short, another excellent bid by Mike Ashley. Highly recommended.
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Dickens as detective
By Louise S. Randolph
This was an interesting collection of mysteries. The brief stories were finished in a character of Dickens' novels from 'Mr Pickwick' to 'Bleak House'. Good for an aeroplane or a metro.
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