The case of Edwin Drood turns us all into Inspector Buckets. Droodiana has been a thriving industry since 1873, when an American spiritualist called T P James published Part Second of the Mystery of Edwin Drood, claiming that Dickens had dictated the ending to him from beyond the grave. In The D Case, or the Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood (1989), Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini gave Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot the chance to each try his hand at decoding the puzzle.
Friday, June 05, 2020
An ongoing mystery …
… Frances Wilson - Murder, He Wrote | Literary Review | Issue 487. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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