It's a "Mystery" who killed this title character, but Charles Dickens Jr. said his father told him it was Jasper
[DOC] [TLE] DICKENS AND THE DRAMA: "THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD ... [PAR] John Forster, in his "Life of Charles Dickens," explains that Dickens's fancy for the 
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at the close, when its temptations were to be dwelt upon as if, not the culprit, but 
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Detective Fiction.