Immortalised to Death: The Dunston Burnett Trilogy

by Lyn Squire

Overview

Death strikes England's foremost novelist, his latest tale only half told. Was he murdered because someone feared a ruinous revelation? Or was it revenge for some past misdeed? Set in the Kent countryside and London slums of 1870, Immortalised to Death embeds an ingenious solution to Charles Dickens's unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood within the evolving and ultimately tragic consequences of a broader mystery surrounding the author himself. Debut author Lyn Squire kicks off his fascinating Dunston Burnett Trilogy with legendary Victorian novelist Charles Dickens dead at his desk, pen still in hand. Convinced that the identity of Dickens's murderer lies in the book's missing denouement, Dickens's nephew and unlikely detective, Dunston Burnett, sets out to complete his uncle's half-finished novel. A stunning revelation crowns this tale about the mysterious death of England's greatest novelist, and exposes the author's long-held secret.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781685123581
Publisher:	Level Best Books
Publication date:	09/26/2023
Series:	The Dunston Burnett Trilogy , #1
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

LYN SQUIRE was born in Cardiff, South Wales. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Wales, his master's at the London School of Economics and his doctorate at Cambridge University. Lyn is now an American citizen living in Virginia. During a twenty-five-year career at the World Bank, he published over thirty articles and several books within his area of expertise. Lyn also served as editor of the Middle East Development Journal for over a decade, and was the founding president of the Global Development Network, an organization dedicated to supporting promising scholars from the developing world. An avid reader of whodunits, Lyn has reviewed scores of mysteries for the City Book Review (Sacramento, CA), and now devotes his time to writing his own stories. His debut novel, Immortalised to Death, introduces Dunston Burnett, a non-conventional amateur detective, whose adventures continue in Fatally Inferior and The Séance of Murder, the second and third books in The Dunston Burnett Trilogy.

Editorial Reviews

"Immortalised to Death's ingenious solution to fiction's most celebrated unfinished mystery holds the key to the secret life, and murder, of legendary author Charles Dickens himself. This novel's cleverly wrought combination of fact and fiction will grip fans of historical mysteries from the opening death scene to the last astounding revelation." - Herta Feely, award-winning author of Saving Phoebe Murrow and founder of Chrysalis Editorial.

"Lyn Squire mixes the novels of Charles Dickens with real events, adds a bit of his own fiction for a kick, and creates a true old-fashioned cocktail of a book that keeps the reader desperately turning the pages to find the resolution only to be met by yet another twist in the story." - Matt Cost, award-winning author of twelve histories and mysteries, most recently, Velma Gone Awry

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