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Authors: William J Palmer
The Detective and Mr. Dickens (42 page)
A spellbinding Dickensian romp with the canonical author at Oxford, where the greatest minds of England toil…and one mind toils day and night with thoughts of the perfect murder.
One dank November night, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins are called to a part of London notorious for its opium dens—where an Oxford History Don has been found murdered. Eager to escape the drudgery of a London winter, the two amateur detectives willingly accept Inspector Field's orders to travel on the new railway line to Oxford, where Collins was once a student, to conduct an undercover investigation. Once in Oxford, they enlist the help of Collins's old schoolmate, Charles Dodgson, a brilliant mind on the verge of becoming the youngest don in Oxford's history. Together, they encounter a complex conspiracy punctuated by murder, political radicalism, and revenge.
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Table of Contents
7. Death Closing All around Me
8. “It Takes a Gentleman to Catch a Gentleman”
10. “Lady Godiva’s House of Gentlemen’s Entertainment”
11. “Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me?”
12. Inspector Field, Playwright, or, “Baiting the Trap”
13. Inspector Field, Novelist, or, “The Murderer’s Room”
14. Reading the Book of the Dead, or, “Out, Out Damned Spot”