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BBC drama to complete Charles Dickens's unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The BBC is risking the ire of Charles Dickens’s fans with a new BBC Two adaptation of his unfinished final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood....  

Dickens wrote only half the psychological thriller before his death on June 9, 1870, leaving readers puzzling over how it might have ended.

Gwyneth Hughes - who wrote the TV thriller Five Days and Miss Austen Regrets - has taken on the unenviable task of completing the tale for a BBC Two drama, due to be broadcast in the bicentenary of Dickens’s birth next year.  

The BBC insists the story remains relevant some 140 years after its conception, billing the two-part drama as “a strange, disturbing and modern tale about drugs, stalking and darkness visible”.... 

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)