Crossword-Solution: DROOD 5 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Was Edwin Drood killed, or did he escape? By a coincidence, in September, 1869, Dickens was working over the late Lord Lytton’s tale for _All The Year Round_, “The Disappearance of John Ackland,” for the purpose of mystifying the reader as to whether Ackland was alive or dead.

THE STORY DRAMATIS PERSONÆ FOR the discovery of Dickens’s secret in _Edwin Drood_ it is necessary to obtain a clear view of the characters in the tale, and of their relations to each other.

Bud entrusted his wife’s engagement ring, rubies and diamonds, which Grewgious was to hand over to Edwin Drood, if, when he attained his majority, he and Rosa decided to marry.

Cuming Walters suggests that she is the mother of John Jasper, and, therefore, maternal grandmother of Edwin Drood.

Datchery, “with a sudden change of countenance, gives her a sudden look.” It does not follow that he is _not_ Drood, for, though the hag’s love of opium was known to Drood, Datchery is not to reveal his recognition of the woman.