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A review by jennie_cole
A Christmas Carol Murder by Heather Redmond
3.0
A Christmas Carol Murder is the third in a series of Dickens's re-imaginings with Charles Dickens as the main character. As you can guess this is a retelling of his classic A Christmas Carol. It comes with all the classic characters including a "ghost".
A few days before Christmas Dickens is sent to a nearby town to cover a deadly fire and is mistaken for the father of a bastard baby Timothy. Dickens enlists his friends to help care for the boy because he cannot let his fiance know about the baby until he finds the real father. As they are out caroling one night a body falls from the house they are caroling at. Something does not seem right so Dickens begins to investigate.
It was definitely an interesting re-imagining in the fact that they are normally just putting the base story in a different environment but this one thought about it as if what is an event in Dickens life that would become A Christmas Carol. You could see this being the basis for a story he writes years later.I think this made me like the book more than I would have if it had just been a retelling.
A few days before Christmas Dickens is sent to a nearby town to cover a deadly fire and is mistaken for the father of a bastard baby Timothy. Dickens enlists his friends to help care for the boy because he cannot let his fiance know about the baby until he finds the real father. As they are out caroling one night a body falls from the house they are caroling at. Something does not seem right so Dickens begins to investigate.
It was definitely an interesting re-imagining in the fact that they are normally just putting the base story in a different environment but this one thought about it as if what is an event in Dickens life that would become A Christmas Carol. You could see this being the basis for a story he writes years later.I think this made me like the book more than I would have if it had just been a retelling.