Literary Mysteries: The Enduring Riddle of Edwin Drood
By David Cranmer
March 6, 2015On June 8, 1870, in the middle of composing the twelve part serial The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the story came to a jarring standstill when, after a long day's work on what would become his last set of characters, Charles Dickens suffered a stroke and passed away the following day. Chapman & Hall went…