Fred Barnard's illustrati
Fred Barnard's illustrations for this novel included two captioned with the lines "I say there's fowlstomorrow, not skinny ones, oh no" and "You're a pair of Whittingtons, gents, without the cat". In this novel,the Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Insurance Company is led by a business associate ofChevy Slyme, who ends up murdered in the woods in a crime exposed by the detective Nadgett. Severallodgers at the Blue Dragon Inn are affected by the death of Montague Tigg in this novel, whose antagonistsinclude a moralizing self-proclaimed architect who has never constructed a building and Jonas, who tries topoison his father. Before the title character marries Mary Graham, a year of this novel's plot is consumedby the disastrous emigration to "Eden," a worthless plot of land in the U.S. For 10 points, name this novelin which Seth Pecksniff is exposed, written by Charles Dickens.
Fred Barnard's illustrations for this novel included two captioned with the lines "I say there's fowlstomorrow, not skinny ones, oh no" and "You're a pair of Whittingtons, gents, without the cat".
Martin Chuzzlewit