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|title= Drood

|author= Dan Simmons

|buy= Yes

|borrow= Yes

|pages=816

|publisher= Quercus

|date= October 2009

|isbn=978-1847249326

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It's 1865, and Wilkie Collins is writing down a text so bizarre, so full of the secret, creepy, unearthly, both damned and damning, he is going to make sure it is locked away for at least a century after his death. So it's now 2009 and I'm left with the almost eight hundred page result on my lap.

There are more real-life people and famous criminals to be found in [[Murder in Paradise by Alanna Knight]], likewise set in the 1860s, while further subterranean, gothic Dickensian thrills are to also be had in [[Joe Rat by Mark Barratt]], which is far too much fun to be left to the teenage audience.

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