Excerpt from The Murder of Edwin Drood Recounted by John Jasper: Being an Attempted Solution of the Mystery Based on Dickens Manuscript and Memoranda Droodists, and it is for these that scientific efforts to solve the problem, Of which Mr. Carden's is one, have their chief interest and attraction. Although the one and true solution may never definitely be discovered, there is no doubt that every fresh study of the book reveals something helpful towards that end, and for that reason has its particular valiie. In this way, one point, hitherto debatable, has been established with sufficient surety to put it beyond doubt: John Jasper actually murdered his nephew. Mr. Carden starts Off from that hypothesis, and I am naturally in complete agreement with him on that point. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.