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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
[...] His calm observation of Jasper's horror and faint at learning he had (as he thought at any rate) killed Edwin for no reason, suggests that Grewgious knew that Edwin had survived and was perhaps testing his theory that the attacker was indeed Jasper.
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Or, Grewgious remains calm because Grewgious is the guilty party. After giving Edwin the ring, he muses:
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‘Her ring,’ he went on. ‘Will it come back to me? My mind hangs about her ring very uneasily to-night. But that is explainable. I have had it so long, and I have prized it so much! I wonder——’
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Thanks - apparently - to Grewgious's attachment to Rosebud's mother, he has quite a thing for that ring: ‘I charge you once more, by the living and by the dead, to bring that ring back to me!’ What would he have done had it seemed like Edwin was going to abscond or otherwise mistreat the ring? (It's just a shame that Mount Doom hadn't been imagined yet.
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Are we told about Rosebud's mother's death just to explain Grewgious's dedication to Rosebud, or does it form part of the puzzle still to be revealed?
Bazzard follows Drood when he leaves Grewgious's office. Is that also related to Rosebud's mother in some way, or something separate?
With a bit of imagination I think I could get most of the cast hanged for murdering Drood.