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    Hunted Down: the detective stories of Charles Dickens
    Hunted Down: the detective stories of Charles Dickens
    Hunted Down: the detective stories of Charles Dickens
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    Hunted Down: the detective stories of Charles Dickens

    By Charles Dickens

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateSep 1, 1996
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    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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    • 3/5
      I'm not sure why this is subtitled with "detective stories" as Hunted Down is a single story. Or at least in this edition it is. It didn't grab me as much as some of his other work I've read, but it's a decent story, especially if you enjoy the style of that time.
    • 3/5
      Mr Sampson, the Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office tells the story of Julius Slinkton and the life assurance on his friend Beckwith.
      My copy of this book only contained this one mystery which was an enjoyable read

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