Unbeknownst to them on their spirited adventure, his young friends may be in mortal danger.
When Charles arrives at the school, he’s hit with another twist-the servant girl who was allegedly in possession of the map has been strangled in the icehouse.
But now they’re missing-as is, apparently, a treasure map. The mudlarks have gone from a hardscrabble life scavenging the banks of the Thames for bits and bobs to becoming students at a boarding school outside of London, thanks to the kind and generous intercession of Charles Dickens. Harrow-on-the-Hill, March 1836: In a sense, orphans Ollie, John, and Arthur have always been treasure hunters. In Victorian England, aspiring author Charles Dickens is on the case again-in pursuit of missing orphans, legendary treasure, and a cold-blooded killer in the latest installment of Heather Redmond’s charming series that reimagines the famous writer as an amateur sleuth.
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