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Originally Posted by Cigargal
Finished Drood....excellent book. Made me run out and buy two Dickens novels. Right now I am reading the Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, which is a true story of the first Metro police detectives in London and the investigation of a murder of a child. Mr. Whicher is the basis for the character Inspector Cuff in A Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and Inspector Bucket from Dicken's Bleak House.
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Finished that a few weeks ago. I'm a huge collins/dickens/Victorian lit fan, but Drood needed some editing. Too much of it came right out of Dicken's bios, not enough spooky stuff. Matthew Pearl is coming out with The Dicken's Manuscript, another historical fiction similar to his Poe Shadow...
Right now reading Jim Harrison's The English Major. It's good but not as good as some of his other books or his poetry.
I'll give the Mr. Whicher a try. Ever read Scenes in the Life of a of a Bow Street Runner by "Richmond"?