Our Mutual FriendOur Mutual Friend is Dickens' last completed novel, portraying a dark, macabre London. Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritanceOld Harmon's profitable dust heapsand its legatees: young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the River Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults. With brilliant satire, Dickens portrays a dark, macabre London, inhabited by such disparate characters as Gaffer Hexam, scavenging