Bucket's List
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Publisher Description
Introducing private investigator Charley Field, the true-life inspiration behind Charles Dickens’ Inspector Bucket, in an intriguing new Victorian mystery series.
December, 1853. Having found fame as the inspiration behind Inspector Bucket in Charles Dickens’ recent bestselling serialization, Bleak House, former Detective Inspector Charley Field has set himself up as a private enquiry agent – so far without success. Matters become personal however when the body of a local prostitute is found floating in the Serpentine in Hyde Park. Having often enjoyed Rosa’s company, Charley is disinclined to believe the official verdict of suicide. Convinced Rosa was murdered, he determines to track down the mysterious client who visited her the day she died.
But when he finally encounters the man he believes responsible for her death, Charley discovers that there’s more to Rosa’s murder than even a veteran sleuth like himself could imagine.
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Set in London in 1853, this imaginative series launch from children's author Blackwood (the Shakespeare Stealer series) stars the real-life inspiration for Charles Dickens's Inspector Bucket of Bleak House: Charley Field, who now runs his own private inquiry agency. Charley is sad to learn that the body of Rosa MacKinnon, a woman he knew who became a prostitute to support her child, has been retrieved from the Serpentine in Hyde Park; it appears that she committed suicide. When he later hears that Rosa may in fact have been murdered, Charley investigates, aided by Constable Lochinvar Mull (whose mother was a great admirer of Sir Walter Scott). From an unusual source, Charley discovers that another person Dickens appropriated for a novel, the original of Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist, might be implicated in Rosa's murder. Meanwhile, Dickens himself asks for Charley's help foiling actress Julia Fairweather, whom he believes has been sabotaging a stage adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Blackwood employs an omniscient narrative voice that Dickens fans will appreciate.
