Death at Hungerford Stairs — John C. Briggs

Charles Dickens turns detective yet again as he and Superintendent Jones of Bow Street pursue a brutal murderer

London, November 1849. When a boy is found drowned in the River Thames at Hungerford Stairs, novelist Charles Dickens and Superintendent Jones of Bow Street are mystified to discover the child is not the missing youngster for whom they have been searching. But when two more boys are brutally murdered, the trail leads them on a hunt for a serial killer in a complicated case that tests their wits -- but can they solve the clues and rescue another child before the murderer strikes again?