
Fifty-three-year-old Charles Dickens, having escaped death during a train accident, momentarily meets a ghoulish figure named Drood and sets out with his friend Wilkie Collins into the nightmarish world of the slums and catacombs of London to uncover the mystery surrounding the figure.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: dickens, charles, 1812-1870, fiction, biographical fiction, historical fiction, mystery fiction, london (england), history, 19th century, fiction