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A body pulled from the Thames, a will that turns on it, and a dust-heap worth a fortune. Dickens's last completed novel, and the one that looks hardest at what money does to the people handling it. He was carrying the manuscript in a train that fell off a viaduct at Staplehurst; he climbed back into the wrecked carriage to fetch it. Fifty-nine plates by painters including Tissot and Frith follow the river, the ferry and the crowded quayside through Victorian London, the element and the city that carry the story.
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