The secret of Edwin Drud. Dickens Ch.

The first issues of the detective novel “The Secret of Edwin Drud”, according to G. U. Longfello, “One of the best books of Dickens, if not the best,” appeared in April 1870. The success was grandiose, all of England turned out to be excited, trying to guess whether it would be possible to fulfill his sinister plan to John Jasper, in the name of the crazy passion of Edwin Drud, who did not regret. But in June of the same year, Charles Dickens died; The novel remained incomplete, and what the final should be, the writer did not tell anyone... In this publication, the "Secret of Edwin Drud" itself is published, and several applications to him, designed to shed light on the last Dicketean riddle.