The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits

by Ashley, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780786719716
• ISBN10: 0786719710
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-08
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Charles Dickens created some of the most memorable characters in English literature and was also a larger-than-life individual himself, a champion of the underdog. The anthology presents a mix of specially commissioned new stories and lesser known reprints, by writers such as Hilary Bonner, Anne Perry, Charles Todd, Kate Ellis, Alanna Knight, Martin Edwards and Gillian Linscott. Many of the stories feature one or more of Dickens's characters, as a sleuth or as the victim of crime. Others are set in Dickens's real life with him investigating a crime or people closely associated with him, such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell or Hablot Browne including during his tours of America. Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger meet up again in later years to solve an age-old crime. Just what became of the convict that frightened young Pip in Great Expectations? Was he really guilty, or framed? Inspector Bucket from Bleak House finds himself up against the greatest criminal mind of his day.

Author Biography

Mike Ashley is editor of several volumes of The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, plus The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits and The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits among others.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Dickensian Crimes
The Marshalsea Handicap	p. 1
The Three-legged Cat of Great Clatterden	p. 18
Murder in Murray's Court	p. 42
The Leaping Lover	p. 59
The End of Little Nell	p. 82
Encounter in the Dark	p. 94
The Lord No Zoo	p. 128
The Bartered Child	p. 155
The Little Christian	p. 180
The Fiery Devil	p. 205
The Divine Nature	p. 226
I Encounter an Old Friend and a New Mystery	p. 250
Awaiting the Dawn	p. 274
The Letter	p. 301
Not Cricket	p. 320
Tom Wasp and the Swell Mob	p. 338
Miss Havisham's Revenge	p. 364
The Prints of the Beast	p. 389
The Mystery of Canute Villa	p. 408
Watchful Unto Death	p. 432
The Tidal	p. 455
The Thorn of Anxiety	p. 479
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