Monthly Archives: August 2018

Watching the Detectives: Review of Pete Orford’s “‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’: Charles Dickens’ Unfinished Novel and our Endless Attempts to End It”

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Jonathan Buckmaster

The introductory chapter of this thoughtful and engaging book concludes with the Beckettian image of the elusive cipher Dick Datchery frozen in the final moment of the Drood serial as Dickens had written it. Datchery endlessly repeats the act of eating his … Continue reading →

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