![]() ![]() Who actually kills Edwin Drood? What is the meaning of that strange and awful cry in the night? What brings the prickly and defensive Landless twins all the way back from Ceylon to the sleepy fictional cathedral city of Cloisterham? And is that really a big white wig on Mr Datchery's head?Īs always, the writing in Dickens is so magisterially confident that, on first reading, you are absolutely sure the author knew where he was going. Or that's what I came to believe, after months of wrestling in darkened rooms with the questions he ran out of time to answer. What's less well known is that Dickens died on purpose – to avoid having to finish it. It's fairly well known that Dickens died halfway through writing his murky story about an opium-addicted, erotically obsessed choirmaster called John Jasper, who plots to murder his nephew and love rival, Edwin Drood. As a humble crime writer, I was thrilled. Episode two – by moi!" This made some important people laugh and got me the commission. My pitch to the BBC to complete the author's great unfinished novel was short and sweet: "The Mystery of Edwin Drood. ![]()
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