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Originally Posted by Quoth
Have you written your own ending for 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'? I think some famous writers have, though wisely not published. Others have published their idea of an ending.
Joan Aiken said her last book was short because she didn't want to be like Dickens with Edwin Drood. She did die not long afterwards.
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The musical of
Edwin Drood had endings where each of the major characters did it, and the show would conclude with one of them after taking a vote from the audience. I remember reading that it was almost never John Jasper, because that was too obvious. My memory is a little hazy now, but I had the sense when reading it that Dickens started going in a different direction than he originally planned.
Counting
Drood, there are 15 Dickens novels, which I've divided into three categories of five each: my favorites, the middling, those I disliked/abandoned/haven't got to (two, and I'll never read
Old Curiosity Shop). Drood makes my top five.