The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by Charles Dickens
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About This Book
When Dickens died on 9 June 1870, he was halfway through writing his last book, _The Mystery of Edwin Drood_. Since that time, hundreds of academics, fans, authors, and playwrights have stepped forward to present their own ideas of how this unfinished book should end.Step into a century and half of Dickensian speculation, detection and bickering to see how our attitudes both to Dickens and his last work have developed. From early responses by his contemporaries that tried to cash in on an opportunity to finish Dickens’ book, through to the dogged attempts of the detectives in the early twentie...
Chapters (28)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
- CHAPTER I. THE DAWN
- CHAPTER II. A DEAN, AND A CHAPTER ALSO
- CHAPTER III. THE NUNS’ HOUSE
- CHAPTER IV. MR. SAPSEA
- CHAPTER V. MR. DURDLES AND FRIEND
- CHAPTER VI. PHILANTHROPY IN MINOR CANON CORNER
- CHAPTER VII. MORE CONFIDENCES THAN ONE
- CHAPTER VIII. DAGGERS DRAWN
- CHAPTER IX. BIRDS IN THE BUSH
- CHAPTER X. SMOOTHING THE WAY
- CHAPTER XI. A PICTURE AND A RING
- CHAPTER XII. A NIGHT WITH DURDLES
- CHAPTER XIII. BOTH AT THEIR BEST
- CHAPTER XIV. WHEN SHALL THESE THREE MEET AGAIN?
- CHAPTER XV. IMPEACHED
- CHAPTER XVI. DEVOTED
- CHAPTER XVII. PHILANTHROPY, PROFESSIONAL AND UNPROFESSIONAL
- CHAPTER XVIII. A SETTLER IN CLOISTERHAM
- CHAPTER XIX. SHADOW ON THE SUN-DIAL
- CHAPTER XX. A FLIGHT
- CHAPTER XXI. A RECOGNITION
- CHAPTER XXII. A GRITTY STATE OF THINGS COMES ON
- CHAPTER XXIII. THE DAWN AGAIN
- APPENDIX: FRAGMENT OF ‘THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD’
- HOW MR. SAPSEA CEASED TO BE A MEMBER OF THE EIGHT CLUB TOLD BY HIMSELF
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