Crime, mystery, suspense, legal, action-adventure
Apr 10th, 2019, 3:57 pm
Charles Dickens Investigations Series by J. C. Briggs (4-11)
Requirements: epub reader 3.1 mb
Overview: Writer. Charles Dickens Mysteries. Sedbergh, Cumbria.
Genre: Mystery/Thriller

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4. The Quickening and the Dead - Three girls, three deaths — but what connects them…?
London, 1850
Lavinia Gray vanishes on the eve of her wedding and is found drowned.
Evie Finch dies of septicaemia in a filthy lodging house.
Annie Deverall, a fifteen-year-old milliner’s apprentice is on remand in Newgate, accused of murdering the Doctor Lancelot Plume.
Three young girls' lives have been ruined, but could they be connected somehow?
Charles Dickens visits Annie and is immediately convinced of her innocence. He enlists the help of Superintendent Sam Jones to find the real murderer before Annie goes to trial.
How are the three girls linked to Plume? And if Annie didn’t kill him, who did?
What Charles Dickens uncovers will shock him to his very core…

5. At Midnight In Venice - It’s a tricky case for Charles Dickens and Superintendent Jones! Perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes, Victorian crime mysteries, A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield…
Two cities, two skeletons, linked by a mysterious vision…
London, 1850
An Italian music master and an English governess disappear from the house of Sir Neptune Fane, a prominent Member of Parliament.
A female skeleton is found in a disused water tank behind a house which has been empty for five years.
Her neck had been broken and found with a jewelled chain around it.
Charles Dickens is reminded of his time in Venice a few years earlier, when he thought he saw a monk with his hands on a girl’s neck, the glimpse of jewels in fleeting torchlight, a cry of fear.
And later he read that a girl was found drowned at the spot where he had his vision.
Are the two corpses connected? And what is the link to Sir Neptune Fane?

6. The Redemption Murders - The sea gave up its dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.…
London, 1851
The Thames River Police are called to The Redemption, a ship docked at London’s Blackwall Reach.
Louis Valentine, the ship’s captain, has been stabbed to death.
With no murder weapon on site, and no signs of a robbery, the only clue is a copy of Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop.
The book is not inscribed to Valentine but to someone called Kit.
When Charles Dickens realises his good friend Kit Penney is now a murder suspect, he is determined to clear his name.
But Kit has gone missing.
With the help of Superintendent Sam Jones, Dickens starts to investigate the troubled last journey of The Redemption.
It seems there was more than one suspicious death on board. But were they murders? And did the same person attack Captain Valentine?
Dickens and Jones begin a desperate search for Kit – and for the key to the dark secrets bound up in The Redemption…

7. The Mystery of the Hawke Sapphires - Dickens faces a decades-old disappearance, a brutal murder and a missing link…
London, 1851
On his deathbed, the sinister Sir Gerald Hawke asks a distant cousin — Reverend Meredith Case — to find Sapphire, his long-lost ward and heir to the Hawke family jewels.
Concerned for her welfare, Meredith vows to discover where Sapphire disappeared to.
Meanwhile, Felix Gresham — a young man with literary ambitions — is found murdered on the steps of a bookshop. As an acquaintance of the Gresham family, novelist Charles Dickens once again teams up with Superintendent Sam Jones to investigate the murder.
But in his quest for the truth, Dickens finds that those associated with Felix are reluctant to talk.
And when he is called on to assist with the search for the Hawke heir, he begins to wonder whether the two cases could be connected…
What became of Sapphire Hawke? What secrets did Felix take to his grave?
And can Dickens find the link between the two mysteries…?

8. The Chinese Puzzle - Charles Dickens must unravel a mystery that stretches from the streets of London to the shores of Canton…
London, 1851
The Great Exhibition has opened, and everyone is flocking to see the wonders on display. But when a potential Chinese assassin manages to get up close to Queen Victoria, and then vanishes without a trace, the Prime Minister orders an urgent investigation.
Superintendent Sam Jones from Bow Street is put on the case to find the whereabouts of the missing man. And he discovers that Cornelius Mornay — a wealthy retired banker from Canton — also went missing on the same day.
As a former opium merchant, it seems that Cornelius had some powerful — and dangerous — connections.
The British government order Jones to keep his enquiries under wraps, so he enlists the help of his good friend Charles Dickens to infiltrate the seedier streets of London.
And when the body of Mornay is found washed up in Wapping, poisoned with opium, the plot starts to thicken.
Mornay is deeply connected to the Opium trade and the suspects are many. And when more murders occur, it seems this mystery could be connected to something larger than Dickens and Jones had ever imagined…

9. Summons to Murder - Dickens investigates the death of a man embroiled in scandal…
London, 1851
Pierce Mallory, a gentleman journalist, is found dead in his lodgings with a gunshot wound in his head and a duelling pistol beside him.
Though the death is deemed a suicide, Mallory’s friends — including Charles Dickens — don’t believe that he would have taken his own life.
Dickens therefore returns to the scene of Mallory’s demise, along with Superintendent Sam Jones from Bow Street. On further investigation, they soon find evidence that Mallory was murdered.
A notorious philanderer, there are plenty of people who could have wanted Mallory dead — including abandoned lovers and jealous husbands.
And as Dickens and Jones dig further into Mallory’s personal affairs, it seems that there are more shocking scandals waiting to be uncovered…
Was Mallory’s murder a crime of passion? What secrets was he harbouring?
And can Dickens untangle the web of intrigue he left behind…?

10. The Jaggard Case - Dickens and Jones are investigating two different cases … but could they be linked?
London, 1851
With Superintendent Sam Jones away in Southampton on the trail of missing murderer Martin Jaggard, his wife, Elizabeth, enlists the help of Charles Dickens when her beloved servant, Posy, goes missing.
Meanwhile, Jones apprehends Jaggard’s mistress, Cora Davies, who is in possession of stolen jewels belonging to Jaggard’s murder victim, Sir William Pell.
But Jones is no closer to finding the man himself, so he returns to London where he believes Jaggard may be hiding.
Dickens and Jones discover that their separate cases both have links to Clerkenwell – a notorious haunt for criminals and forgers.
And when they suspect they are being followed, they realise Jaggard may be onto them.
Was Jaggard behind Posy’s abduction? Is the servant girl still alive?
Or will more victims be found dead in the mysterious Jaggard Case…?

11. The Waxwork Man - Dickens investigates a death witnessed only by waxwork women…
London, 1851
While visiting Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors, Charles Dickens crosses paths with Sir Fabian Quarterman, a judge famed for his ruthlessness in court.
Dickens reluctantly accepts an invitation to accompany Quarterman back to his mansion, where he claims to keep a gallery of waxworks that surpass Madame Tussaud’s. To his dismay, Dickens finds that they are all effigies of women who were sentenced to death or who died in brutal circumstances.
The day after Dickens’s visit, Quarterman is found dead in his gallery, his face frozen in an expression of terror. When Dickens views the scenewith Superintendent Sam Jones of Bow Street, he believes that one of the waxwork women is missing.
Though the cause of Quarterman’s death is assumed to be apoplexy, Dickens is convinced that there are more sinister forces at work. And when waxwork women begin mysteriously appearing around London and two more men are found dead in suspicious circumstances, Dickens and Jones must once again embark on a search for a deranged criminal…
What happened to the missing waxwork? Did someone seek revenge on the judge?
And can Dickens unearth the secrets of the dead…?

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5. At Midnight In Venice
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6. The Redemption Murders
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7. The Mystery of the Hawke Sapphires
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8. The Chinese Puzzle
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9. Summons to Murder
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10. The Jaggard Case
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