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Once a rich heiress who was spoiled, condescending, and generally hated throughout the county. But her death is none-the-less haunting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt then takes Mary Crawford, who is now as good as Fanny was bad, to team up with a thief-taker, Charles Maddox, from London to solve the brutal crime. 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The feared and shadowy attorney offers Charles a handsome price he can't refuse to do some sleuthing for a client. Charles learns that Sir Julius Cremorne has been receiving threatening letters, and now Tulkinghorn wants him to find and stop whoever is responsible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what starts as a simple, open-and-shut case swiftly escalates into something bigger and much darker. As he cascades toward a collision with powerful forces, Charles will need all the assistance he can get...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Man in Black\u003c\/i\u003e takes a classic Charles Dickens novel and plummets readers into a newly reimagined and mysterious world. 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