Dec 18, 2025
“Oh! a mystery is it?” [STUD]
When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Mystery of Edwin
Drood was only six chapters into its 12-chapter run. There
were no sketches or outlines of what would come next, so for a
century and a half, scholars have puzzled over the solution.
In 1968, Colin Prestige, BSI ("Captain Jack Croker") made a
bold claim: that Sherlock Holmes could have handily solved the
case, in "Sherlock Holmes and Edwin Drood," which appeared in Vol.
18, No. 3 of The Baker Street Journal. It's this month's
"Mr. Sherlock Holmes the theorist" episode and it's just a
Trifle.
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Music credits
Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber OrchestraPublisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band.
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