
Mystery
Heather Redmond
A Dickens of a Crime, Libro n° 3
Kensington Publishing
29 settembre 2020
eBook
320
Inglese
--
5 Novembre, 2020 11 Novembre, 2020
The latest novel from Heather Redmond’s acclaimed mystery series finds young Charles Dickens suspecting a miser of pushing his partner out a window, but his fiancée Kate Hogarth takes a more charitable view of the old man's innocence . . .
London, December 1835: Charles and Kate are out with friends and family for a chilly night of caroling and good cheer. But their blood truly runs cold when their singing is interrupted by a body plummeting from an upper window of a house. They soon learn the dead man at their feet, his neck strangely wrapped in chains, is Jacob Harley, the business partner of the resident of the house, an unpleasant codger who owns a counting house, one Emmanuel Screws.
Ever the journalist, Charles dedicates himself to discovering who's behind the diabolical defenestration. But before he can investigate further, Harley's corpse is stolen. Following that, Charles is visited in his quarters by what appears to be Harley's ghost—or is it merely Charles’s overwrought imagination? He continues to suspect Emmanuel, the same penurious penny pincher who denied his father a loan years ago, but Kate insists the old man is too weak to heave a body out a window. Their mutual affection and admiration can accommodate a difference of opinion, but matters are complicated by the unexpected arrival of an infant orphan. Charles must find the child a home while solving a murder, to ensure that the next one in chains is the guilty party . . .

Di cosa parla
Ed ecco che per la prima volta sto leggendo un libro su Charles Dickens. Mi è stata data l’opportunità di leggere questo libro dall’autrice grazie a Partner in Crime Tour e devo dire che sto scoprendo un nuovo modo di scrivere gialli che mi piace.
Seguiamo le avventure di Charles Dickens e questo libro cerca di risolvere il mistero di un corpo caduto, lettaralmente dalla finestra di una casa e di presenze spettrali. Infatti, proprio come il famoso libro di Dickens, abbiamo uno Scroodge, fantasmi e una favola di Natale. Conosco il libro di Charles Dickens, non l’ho letto a causa della lingua che è piuttosto vecchia ed è difficile per me leggerlo in inglese, ma conosco il racconto e ho trovato molte rappresentazioni comuni qui.