““Our Mutual Friend” is the Master's most complex, Bosch-like cosmos, where all we encounter seems to be distorted by the light of flickering torches and glowing brimstone. It's a tale of greed, lust, envy…in fact, I’m sure all of the Seven Deadly Sins factor in at some point. It’s a study of contamination, of corruption. No character reaches the final page untainted; it’s only a matter of degree. The Thames snakes through the story like a virus, riddled with corpses; the source of the...”

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