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Dan Simmons '70 wrote this about the haunted author of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Blending history and fiction, Simmons suggests that Charles Dickens' unfinished final novel of seduction, drugs, and murder may have been based in reality. Told from the perspective of an unreliable opium addict and fellow author (based on Wilkie Collins, whose novels The Woman in White and The Moonstone established him as the grandfather of detective mystery), step into the macabre research of a Victorian celebrity and look closer at the last dark years of Dickens' life.