The news of the untimely death of Charles Dickens reaches the office of his publisher. James Osgood, a junior partner there, had been expecting the latest instalment of Dickens' final work, to arrive shortly. Suspicious of unscrupulous New York publishers' intent on stealing Dickens' novel, Osgood sends his trusted clerk to await its arrival.
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Matthew Pearl es el autor de los bestsellers internacionales El club Dante y La sombra de Poe. Pearl está graduado por la Universidad de Harvard y en la escuela de Derecho de Yale y ha dado clases de literatura en la Universidad de Harvard y en la de Emerson. Actualmente vive en Cambridge, Massachussets.