Our Mutual Friend
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Lizzie Hexam rows her father's boat down a night Thames while he watches the water for what the tide delivers — coins, mostly, and worse. Her brother Charley wants her off the river for good, but she stays through the recovery of a drowned man and the ugly bargain her father strikes with his own conscience over a corpse's pockets. A rival boatman, Rogue Riderhood, trails them with insinuations, and at the landing a police inspector opens a sealed paper naming the dead man John Harmon.
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- On the Look OutThe Thames