“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” With its description of life in Paris and London before and after the French Revolution of 1789, with machinations and ruinations, Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Citiesis aptly named for those engaged in the business of right-time, right-place real estate investing. With his evocative descriptions of the minutiae of contemporary daily routine, Dickens often features as a source for quotations in property articles, but rarely in this context.