当一个记者调查一连串的谋杀时,他于泰晤士河旁的酒吧地窖里,发现英国文豪查尔斯更斯没发表过的手稿。他逐渐地沉迷于解开在手稿上一百年前谋杀案之谜。在一名神秘的流浪者帮助下,他终于解开了。而他也懂得解决现代的谋杀案。A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames-side-pub. Gradually he becomes obsessed with unraveling a century-old murder in the pages of the manuscript. Only when he has done so, with the help of a mysterious beach-combing tramp who stalks the Thames foreshore, is he able to solve the modern ...