CC Spin Title (and Summerbook #12 ): Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens This doorstopper tome came in at over 800 pages! So, clearly, this is a story that is going to have a lot of characters and a lot of plot threads. Dickens does weave all of it together into a suspenseful and exciting pattern, and for the most part I enjoyed the novel and often kept reading to find out what would happen. Our story revolves, mainly, around one hero and two heroines, but they are not in a love triangle. In fact, we start with a murder; the body of John Harmon, heir to a large fortune and just arrived to claim it, has been found in the river. Who killed him, and who will get the money? It is not a spoiler to let you know that John Harmon is in fact alive, but is pretty iffy on whether he wants the money. He definitely does not want to force Miss Bella Wilfer into marriage, which is what his father has ordained in the will, although the two have never seen each other. So the family servants, the kind and relaxed Boffins, get th