The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens - Softcover

A ghastly murder at 35 Cadogan Place in London reunites celebrated novelist Charles Dickens, his prote+a7ge+a7, Wilkie Collins, and Inspector Field of the Metropolitan Protectives in a quest for justice. Reprint.

William Palmer, on a superb performance, bring back Dickens and Collins for an encore."
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The ghastly double murder of a society doctor's beautiful wife and her maid reuintes celebrated novelist Charles Dickens, his protege Wilkie Collins, and formidable Inspector Field of the Metropolitan Protectives in another brilliant quest for justice. They manage to defend old friend 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, all join the chase of a killer who is the stuff of nightmares....