In this second installment of Redmond\'s mystery series that reimagines Charles Dickens as an aspiring young author, Charles and his fiancZe, Kate Hogarth, must solve the murder of an elderly spinster wearing a wedding gown.gown. .. .
But Charles and Kate will have to risk their lives to unveil the truth .
Secrets shrouded by the old woman\'s past may hold the answers to this web of mystery.
At the inquest, they are surprised to meet Miss Haverstock\'s cold and haughty foster daughter, shadowed by her miserably besotted companion.
When a local blacksmith is found with cut manacles in his shop and arrested, his distraught wife begs Charles and Kate to help.
But Kate suspects more personal motives, given the time and effort in dressing the victim.
But to what purpose? As news of an escaped convict from Coldbath Fields reaches the couple, Charles reasonably expects the prisoner, Ned Blood, may be responsible.
A murderer has set the stage.
Upon entering the woman\'s quarters, they find her decomposing corpse propped up, adorned in a faded gown that looks like it could have been her wedding dress, had she been married.
But as the young journalist and his fianc e Kate ascend the stairs, they are assaulted by the unmistakable smell of death.
London, June 1835: In the interest of being a good neighbor, Charles checks in on Miss Haverstock, the elderly spinster who resides in the flat above his. . .
In this clever reimagining of Charles Dickens\'s life, he and fianc e Kate Hogarth must solve the murder of a spinster wearing a wedding gown .
In this second installment of Redmond\'s mystery series that reimagines Charles Dickens as an aspiring young author, Charles and his fiancZe, Kate Hogarth, must solve the murder of an elderly spinster wearing a wedding gown.gown
