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The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens

William J. Palmer

3/5 ( ratings)

"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....

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Fawcett

Release: December 04, 1993

ISBN: 0345382528

ISBN 13: 9780345382528

The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens

William J. Palmer

3/5 ( ratings)

"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....

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Fawcett

Release: December 04, 1993

ISBN: 0345382528

ISBN 13: 9780345382528

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