As a pizza delivery man, Jake Wells peers into the dark underbelly of the Des Moines metropolitan area. He sees a lot of weird things, but nothing prepares him for Violet Annie Moss, who appears in the back seat of his car wearing a ball gown and smoking a pipe tobacco cigarette. She says that she works in 1867, where she just beat the hell out of Charles Dickens. Now she's on the run. And she has money.
Jake's girlfriend just dumped him for somebody's roleplaying game character, and he assumes Violet is just another gamer who won't break character. But every man has his price, and Jake's is $300.
Taking place on December 30, 2017, I Beat Up Charles Dickens is a hilarious, period-accurate novel full of mystery, romance, whip-smart dialogue, Dickensian grotesques, metalheads, nostalgia, deep fried food on sticks, and debates about The Last Jedi.
ADAM SELZER is the author of over twenty books, including I Put a Spell On You (Random House 2008), I Kissed a Zombie and I Liked It (Random House 2009), Play Me Backwards (Simon and Schuster 2014) and Sparks (as SJ Adams, Flux 2011, a Stonewall Honor / YALSA Popular Paperbacks title). He in Chicago, where he works as a historian and tour guide. He has read every Dickens book except Barnaby Rudge, and there is a canon Star Wars character named after him.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Jake's girlfriend just dumped him for somebody's roleplaying game character, and he assumes Violet is just another gamer who won't break character. But every man has his price, and Jake's is $300.
Taking place on December 30, 2017, I Beat Up Charles Dickens is a hilarious, period-accurate novel full of mystery, romance, whip-smart dialogue, Dickensian grotesques, metalheads, nostalgia, deep fried food on sticks, and debates about The Last Jedi.
ADAM SELZER is the author of over twenty books, including I Put a Spell On You (Random House 2008), I Kissed a Zombie and I Liked It (Random House 2009), Play Me Backwards (Simon and Schuster 2014) and Sparks (as SJ Adams, Flux 2011, a Stonewall Honor / YALSA Popular Paperbacks title). He in Chicago, where he works as a historian and tour guide. He has read every Dickens book except Barnaby Rudge, and there is a canon Star Wars character named after him.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
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