J. C. Briggs taught English for many years in schools in Cheshire, Hong Kong and Lancashire. She now lives in a cottage in Cumbria. The Murder of Patience Brooke is the first novel featuring Charles Dickens as a detective and his partner, Superintendent Sam Jones of Bow Street.
The idea of Dickens as a detective came about when she read Dickens’s articles about the London police in his periodical Household Words. Dickens was fascinated by police investigation and by murder, in particular – there are plenty of murderers in his writing, and Dickens is credited with the creation of the first literary detective in Inspector Bucket who solves the murder of Mr Tulkinghorn in Bleak House. The second in the series is Death at Hungerford Stairs (2015), and the third, Murder by Ghostlight, set in Manchester and London, was published in 2016.
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The Legacy of Foulstone Manor
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The Waxwork Man (Charles Dickens Investigations Book 11)
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The Jaggard Case (Charles Dickens Investigations Book 10)
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Summons to Murder (Charles Dickens Investigations #9)
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The Chinese Puzzle (Charles Dickens Investigations #8)
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The Mystery of the Hawke Sapphires (Charles Dickens Investigations #7)
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The Redemption Murders (Charles Dickens Investigations #6)
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Midwinter Mysteries
Eleven authors. Eleven stories. One festive collection! Perfect for fans of crime fiction, short stories, thrillers — and Christmas!
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The Golden Crucible (Inspector Lintott Mysteries #3)
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The Quickening and the Dead (Charles Dickens Investigations #4)
Charles Dickens and Superintendent Jones are fighting crime once again!
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Murder By Ghostlight (Charles Dickens Investigations #3)
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Death at Hungerford Stairs (Charles Dickens Investigations #2)
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The Murder of Patience Brooke (Charles Dickens Investigations #1)
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