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Simmons, Dan
Simmons, Dan
Simmons signs Drood (Little Brown $27), a novel of Dickens' last years.
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Feb 25, 2009 from 07:00 pm |
| Where | PP Scottsdale |
| Contact Email | sales@poisonedpen.com |
| Contact Phone | 480 947 2974 |
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On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens. the most famous and successful novelist in the world, hurtled into disaster. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean place just research? Jan. Pbk: The Terror ($7.99), a true story of two ice ships that disappear in the 1845 Arctic expedition led by Franklin, the very basis of the Cusslers' new Arctic Drift ($27 Signed).
