Unfinished Works May Be Better Left Alone

The Mystery of Edwin Drood recently got a lot less mysterious. A BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens murder mystery that was unfinished on his death over 100 years ago, came complete with an ending supplied by the screenwriter. Dickens undoubtedly would have approved – while the serial publication of his novels during his lifetime impelled him to build in a series of strategic cliffhangers, it’s doubtful that he would have wanted the questions posed by this particular plot left dangling for a century.

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