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A Christmas Carol Murder
(2020)(The third book in the Dickens of a Crime series)
A novel by Heather Redmond
The latest novel from Heather Redmond’s acclaimed mystery series finds young Charles Dickens suspecting a miser of pushing his partner out a window, but his fiancée Kate Hogarth takes a more charitable view of the old man's innocence . . .
London, December 1835: Charles and Kate are out with friends and family for a chilly night of caroling and good cheer. But their blood truly runs cold when their singing is interrupted by a body plummeting from an upper window of a house. They soon learn the dead man at their feet, his neck strangely wrapped in chains, is Jacob Harley, the business partner of the resident of the house, an unpleasant codger who owns a counting house, one Emmanuel Screws.
Ever the journalist, Charles dedicates himself to discovering who's behind the diabolical defenestration. But before he can investigate further, Harley's corpse is stolen. Following that, Charles is visited in his quarters by what appears to be Harley's ghost—or is it merely Charles’s overwrought imagination? He continues to suspect Emmanuel, the same penurious penny pincher who denied his father a loan years ago, but Kate insists the old man is too weak to heave a body out a window. Their mutual affection and admiration can accommodate a difference of opinion, but matters are complicated by the unexpected arrival of an infant orphan. Charles must find the child a home while solving a murder, to ensure that the next one in chains is the guilty party . . .
Genre: Historical Mystery
London, December 1835: Charles and Kate are out with friends and family for a chilly night of caroling and good cheer. But their blood truly runs cold when their singing is interrupted by a body plummeting from an upper window of a house. They soon learn the dead man at their feet, his neck strangely wrapped in chains, is Jacob Harley, the business partner of the resident of the house, an unpleasant codger who owns a counting house, one Emmanuel Screws.
Ever the journalist, Charles dedicates himself to discovering who's behind the diabolical defenestration. But before he can investigate further, Harley's corpse is stolen. Following that, Charles is visited in his quarters by what appears to be Harley's ghost—or is it merely Charles’s overwrought imagination? He continues to suspect Emmanuel, the same penurious penny pincher who denied his father a loan years ago, but Kate insists the old man is too weak to heave a body out a window. Their mutual affection and admiration can accommodate a difference of opinion, but matters are complicated by the unexpected arrival of an infant orphan. Charles must find the child a home while solving a murder, to ensure that the next one in chains is the guilty party . . .
Genre: Historical Mystery
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Hardback Editions
September 2020 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
September 2021 : USA Paperback
Audio Editions
March 2021 : USA Audio CD

Title: Christmas Carol Murder (The Dickens of a Crime Series): 3
Author(s): Heather Redmond
ISBN: 1-66520-248-3 / 978-1-66520-248-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Tantor and Blackstone Publishing
Availability: Amazon AU
September 2020 : USA Audio CD

Title: Christmas Carol Murder
Author(s): Heather Redmond
ISBN: 1-5414-3451-X / 978-1-5414-3451-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Availability: Amazon CA
September 2020 : USA Audio CD

Title: Christmas Carol Murder (A Dickens of a Crime)
Author(s): Heather Redmond
ISBN: 1-4945-3988-8 / 978-1-4945-3988-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Availability: Amazon
September 2020 : USA Audio edition

Title: Christmas Carol Murder: A Dickens of a Crime, Book 3
Author(s): Heather Redmond
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Availability: Amazon
Kindle Editions
September 2020 : USA, Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition