The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot
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The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot

By Andrew Lang
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Table of Contents
  • THE PUZZLE OF DICKENS’S LAST PLOT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 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
  • 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?
  • CONCLUSION
  • FOOTNOTES
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