With regret, I am going to end this story here. I am currently re-reading Edwin Drood and have spotted too many little inconsistencies to continue – just small misremembered things, but they bother me too much and would require too much rejigging of chapters already posted.

What I plan to do instead, once my re-read is complete, is write my own ending to it. Some of the elements in this story will be carried over into that, and my planned unfolding of the mystery will be revealed. So I won't go into that here…

But watch this space for new material – thank you for reading.