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Authors: William J Palmer

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The Dons and Mr. Dickens

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

The Detective and Mr. Dickens

Copyright

Editor’s Note

1. Remembering

2. At the Raree-Show

3. At the Station House

4. We Are Off!

5. Under Blackfriars Bridge

6. The Body Will Tell Us!

7. Death Closing All around Me

8. “It Takes a Gentleman to Catch a Gentleman”

9. “Spies!”

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”

15. Milord in the Afternoon

16. A Voice from the Shadows

17. Milord’s Secret Library

18. Not So Good As We Seem

19. The Bawd’s Testimony

20. Confessio Amatis

21. The Siege

22. The Skylight

23. Down into the Maze

24. Milord Run to Ground

25. A Hole in the Water

26. A Resolution of Sorts, or, Reality Rarely Ends Well

27. The Queen’s Night

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