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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
The Drood Inquiry website I found does give images of the magazines in which the serial appeared, complete with advertisements - lovely stuff to browse over. The green wrapper appeared for each instalment.
On the titles, Nicoll in his book The Problem of 'Edwin Drood': A Study in the Methods of Dickens (one of Catlady's finds) gives Dickens' notes for the novel.
This suggests that Dickens intended to tease his readers with wondering whether Edwin was indeed dead or alive, which is why he called it "Mystery" rather than "Murder".
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Awesome! Thank you for this info and the sleuthing! I didn’t have time to look at the website when I was eating my breakfast this morning and posting before work.
I’ll check it out over the weekend. Interesting to know that the title was his own. I think it is the best out of that possible list.