The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot
by Andrew Lang
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
- Credits
- Transcribed from the 1905 Chapman and Hall edition by David Price
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Murder in literature
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 738
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/738
- Release Date
- December 1, 1996
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE PUZZLE OF DICKENS’S LAST PLOT
- 2.INTRODUCTION
- 3.THE STORY — Dramatis Personæ — Opening of the Tale — Sapsea and Durdles — The Landlesses — Mr. Grewgious — The Unaccountable Expedition — Purpose of the Expedition — Christmas Eve — After the Disappearance — Dick Datchery — Jasper, Rosa, and Tartar — Jasper’s Opium Visions — Datchery and the Opium Woman — Datchery’s Score
- 4.THEORIES OF THE MYSTERY — Forster’s Evidence — “ A New Idea ” — Mr. Proctor’s Theory — A Mistaken Theory — Another Way — Dickens’s Unused Draft of a Chapter — A Question of Taste — Mr. Proctor’s Theory Continued — Mr. Cuming Walters’s Theory — Evidence of Collins’s Drawings — Mr. Walters’s Theory Continued — Who was the Princess Puffer ? — Who was Jasper ?
- 5.CONCLUSION
- 6.FOOTNOTES
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