Related Clues:

• Novelist
• "Bleak House" writer
•     Sydney Carton's creator
• English novelist
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• 'Bleak House' author
• Boz, really
• Scrooge creator
• Charles . . . . . . . whose pen name was Boz
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• Who the author mentioned in disbelief?
• Detective being a man of many words