OBADIAH GRANGE : A Second Untold Tale of Charles Dickens

Twelve months have passed since the events surrounding the mystery of Hungerford Stairs.The young Charles Dickens (‘Charley’) has gone back to school – but a new adventure is about to unfold.When the body of a young girl is washed up beside the River Thames at Blackfriars Bridge, policeman Robert Hesketh finds himself faced with a new and daunting puzzle.Needing to delve beneath the surface of an itinerant waxworks show that may be the cover for a devilish plot, he calls once again on the services of Charley – ‘The Inimitable’ – the very smart, young man who helped him smash a raft of criminal conspiracies just the year before.When Charley’s close neighbour and friend, Mary Ann Mitton, disappears, the need to uncover this latest dark network of crime becomes pressingly urgent – and very personal.While Hesketh suspects that several eminent figures are involved in sponsoring a scheme of organised corruption and child abuse, the evidence is thin.Just two words that keep recurring in odd and apparently unrelated ways: Obadiah Grange.Can Hesketh’s and Charley’s joint efforts to discover the meaning of Obadiah Grange produce results before the tide of abuse claims its next victim?