Just before Christmas, I watched THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, put out by Paramount Pictures in 1935. It is the studio's attempt to solve the mystery of how the writer Charles Dickens intended for his last story to end. The movie was decried by Dickens scholars at the time, because he originally called the story "The Disappearance of Edwin Drood," suggesting that Edwin was not killed. It is even possible that the character depicted as the culprit in this version, his uncle James Jasper, was actually a red herring and that Edwin was disguised as another character!
