The Last Dickens

In The Last Dickens, Matthew Pearl takes readers on a gripping, period-accurate adventure surrounding the mysterious death of Charles Dickens and the fate of his unfinished novel. When Dickens’s manuscript disappears and a key figure is found dead, Osgood and Rebecca Sand embark on a perilous transatlantic journey to uncover the truth, confronting danger, deception, and hidden secrets along the way. Filled with intrigue and rich historical detail, the story explores the race to unlock Dickens’s final mystery—a quest with stakes that could be fatal.