The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl

Synopsis :

Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends his trusted clerk Daniel Sand to await the arrival of Dickens’s unfinished novel. But when Daniel’s body is discovered by the docks and the manuscript is nowhere to be found, Osgood must embark on a transatlantic quest to unearth the novel that he hopes will save his venerable business and reveal Daniel’s killer.

Danger and intrigue abound on the journey to England, for which Osgood has chosen Rebecca Sand, Daniel’s older sister, to assist him. As they attempt to uncover Dickens’s final mystery, Osgood and Rebecca find themselves racing the clock through a dangerous web of literary lions and drug dealers, sadistic thugs and blue bloods, and competing members of Dickens’s inner circle. They soon realize that understanding Dickens’s lost ending is a matter of life and death, and the hidden key to stopping a murderous mastermind.


This is what I say :

It took me a rather long while to complete this. It was the end of the year and I have too many things on my plate so I have to forgo reading for quite a period of time and this is one casualty.  However, I managed to read this towards the end of nineteen twenty.

The Last Dickens wasn't an easy read.  Like I said above, maybe because I was distracted, I can't really focus on what the author is trying to tell in the story.  All I got was that the search was on for the missing last manuscript that Dickens wrote and which means a lot to the publishing world.  

I feel that perhaps as an adventure movie, it would fare better?  Anyway, It's over and done with.