The Trial For Murder, written in 1865, is a short story by Charles Dickens. It is one of Dickens' ghost stories, and is perhaps the best known outside of "A Christmas Carol." Charles John Huffam Dickens pen-name "Boz," was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870) was an English writer and social critic, who also He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular. Other Books of Dickens: - A Tale of Two Cities (1859) - Great Expectations (1861) - David Copperfield (1850) - A Christmas Carol (1843) - Oliver Twist (1867) - Little Dorrit (1857) - The Haunted House (1859) - Bleak House (1853) - Our Mutual Friend (1865) - The Pickwick Papers (1832)