Dickens was sharing an Epiphany repast with Kate’s family when they heard the dying girl’s loud and painful death throes. The second victim was a neighbor of the Hogarths. Each aged seventeen, each in good health, each succumbing painfully to what might be a case of poisoning. Two young women have been murdered exactly a year apart and in strikingly similar circumstances. It is great sport to follow Redmond’s reconstruction of their embryonic relationship as the two neophytes work together to solve A Tale of Two Murders. Aiding and abetting Dickens, who in 1835 was a newly-hired reporter just learning his journalistic trade, is the flirtatious Kate Hogarth, the young woman that the reader knows will marry Dickens a year later. Heather Redmond has begun writing a new detective series featuring a youthful Charles Dickens pursuing multiple murderous clues and figuring out whodunnit.
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