Charles Dickens's last completed novel, a dark and dazzling panorama of money, identity and the London river. A drowned man, a disputed fortune, and a great city where nothing is quite what it seems.
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A fortune built on dust heaps is to pass to a young heir on condition that he marry a woman he has never met, but when a corpse is fished from the river and identified as his, the inheritance and everyone's fate are…