The Dons and Mr. Dickens: The Strange Case of the Oxford Christmas Plot

An Oxford don's death in an opium den is investigated by the literary detective duo—with some help from fellow author Charles Dodgson . . .

One dank November night, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins are called to a part of London notorious for its opium dens—where an Oxford history don has been found murdered. Eager to escape the drudgery of a London winter, the two amateur detectives willingly accept Inspector Field's orders to travel on the new railway line to Oxford, where Collins was...