Death at Hungerford Stairs

When young boys are killed in the dank fog of Victorian London, Charles Dickens immediately starts to investigate. All the atmosphere of a Dickens novel is here, complete with larger-than-life characters, insightful characterisation, and a fast-moving plot. But this is tightly-focused and the plot k......more

I would like to thank Netgalley and Sapere Books for a review copy of Death at Hungerford Stairs, the second novel to feature Victorian author, Charles Dickens, as an investigator. When Charles Dickens and Superintendent Sam Jones are hunting for a young boy, Scrap whom they befriended on their previ......more

First sentence: Charles Dickens remembered the rats. Premise/plot: Death at Hungerford Stairs is the second novel in J.C. Briggs' mystery series starring Charles Dickens. Dickens is an amateur detective (of sorts) assisting the police--namely Superintendent Sam Jones. Dickens and Jones are on the hun......more

London 1849 and surprisingly there seems to be two different cities in one. One is where the rich, the famous live. Bright, sparkly, with all mod cons and a very comfortable lifestyle and then you get the slums and the alleys of dirt, death, every vice possible and more. It is an eye opener and it is......more

“A Death at Hungerford Stairs”. It is 1849 and in this sequel to the “The Murder Of Patience Brooke” we find that Charles Dickens and his police friend Supt. Sam James are searching for a missing boy Scrap who often helps them with odd jobs. Word reaches them that the corpse of a child has been foun......more