The Mystery of Edwin Drood

by Charles Dickens
Category: "Fiction - Mystery"
Pages:314
Year of Publication:1870
Date Read:11/20/1994
Notes:Edwin Drood is contracted to marry Orphan Rosa, but they break the engagement off-and soon afterwards Edwin disappears. Is it murder? And is his jealous uncle-a sinister choirmaster with a double life and designs on Rosa-the killer? Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective.
My Rating: 7

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Review - Mystery of Edwin Drood, The

I read this book inside another book — The D. Case/The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini. A group of fictional characters (Father Brown, Sherlock Holmes, Hercules Periot, Lew Archer, etc.) are brought together in Rome to solve the mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapters with these characters alternate with chapters from Dickens' book (which is included in its entirety). They solve Edwin's murder and, while they're at it, discover what killed Dickens.

Reviewed by Roger on 2003-07-20 16:33:31

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