The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot. Andrew Lang

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066245979

      Table of Contents

       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