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"Bravo, William Palmer, on a superb performance, bring back Dickens and Collins for an encore." ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH SERIES DEBUT 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....William J. Palmer is the author of 'The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens: An Account of the Strange Events of the Medusa Murderers (Mr. Dickens, Book 2)', published 1993 under ISBN 9780345382528 and ISBN 0345382528.
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