"The greatest writer of his time."-Edmund Wilson "One of the great poets of the novel, a genius of his art"-Edgar Johnson "His characters are marvelous, his insights wonderful…you don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better."-Ruth Rendell The Old Curiosity Shop was initially published in a weekly serial, "Master Humphrey's Clock", between 1840 and 1841. Charles Dickens' story of the frail and innocent orphan had become such...

Just as Pippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max become free from the danger of Nicholas Rattigan, their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders, comes under threat of closure and their friend Siegfried Eckleberger is murdered.