Researchers set up a website explaining the plot to members of the public, and inviting them to give their opinions on what happened. The title character suddenly disappears on a stormy night, leading to the assumption that he is dead - but Dickens never got round to finishing the story and explaining what happened. The narrative focuses around Edwin Drood and his fiancée Rosa, who is the object of unwanted attention from Edwin's opium-addict uncle John Jasper. The Mystery of Edwin Drood was written and published in instalments, and when the author died in 1870 he had not yet completed the ending which would answer the question of who killed the main character.Īcademics at the University of Buckingham decided to crowd-source the solution to the riddle - and now 15,000 members of the public have come up with their verdict on the mystery. Unfinished: Charles Dickens never wrote an ending to his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin DroodĪ mystery posed by Charles Dickens has finally been solved after 145 years after readers of his final, unfinished novel voted to give it an ending at last.
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