![]() In ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ who killed Drood-and is Drood really dead?”. “When Charles Dickens died, he left behind an unfinished book containing unresolved mysteries. The Haunting Mystery of ‘Edwin Drood’ That Charles Dickens Left Behind Rupert Holmes’s clever approach to “solving the mystery” was to create a musical and allow audience members to vote on the ending. Some Early Dramatic Solutions to Dickens’ Unfinished Mystery, courtesy of The Victorian Web. If you have Britbox, you can watch the 2012 BBC adaptation. The original illustrations are also found on the Charles Dickens Page. The Charles Dickens Page provides an abundance of resources, including a useful map, a complete description of characters, and a facsimile of the final page written by Dickens’s hand. Here are some resources if you want to learn more: But did he? Was Edwin Drood actually murdered? Did he fake his own death? After all, this is a Dickens novel, so anything is possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() Congratulations, Dickensians, we’ve made it to the last, and most mysterious of Dickens’s novels! Dickens did not share his plans for the novel’s resolution, but before the serial was abruptly interrupted by Dickens’s death on June 9, 1870, he implied that Drood’s uncle murdered young Edwin. ![]()
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