Dickens, Collins, and the mystery of the missing reviews

In honor of Wilkie Collins's bicentenary, the Dickens Museum is about to open a new exhibition, "Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins." But there's something missing: a copy of John Forster's biography of Dickens, in which Collins wrote some not-so-flattering notes about a few of Dickens's novels! The "notorious book," as journalist Ian Mansfield puts it, was sold at auction after Collins died, and now no one knows where it is. But the Dickens Museum would like very much to add it to the exhibition if it can be found. Everyone start checking your attics!