SeniorLearn Book Discussion of THE LAST DICKENS

Questions for Matthew Pearl

Do you have a personal opinion about where Dickens might have been going with his novel, Matthew? I read somewhere in an interview, I think it was - that you thought that Dickens did not know how he would end it at the time of his death.

From the tale you've told in the Last Dickens, I sense that you believe there might be other explanations of what happened to Edwin Drood...including the idea that he may not have been murdered at all. Do you think it is reasonable to believe that Dickens has an idea, perhaps not thought out in detail yet, but an idea of whether or not Edwin Drood had been murdered by his Uncle Jasper?