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...with very noteworthy results. Even in the realm of fiction he has not shone analytically as Poe did when he prophesied the conclusion of Dickens's "Barnaby Rudge" after reading the first chapters in serial. Dr. Doyle's opinion, for example, regarding the conclusion of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," the novel which the death of Charles Dickens interrupted, and his solution of the fictional mystery are rather less tenable than those of many other commentators hardly known to fame...
...circulation of 40,000 a month obtained by "Pickwick" and "Nickleby." This best of his books was the least successful of all his works on first publication, and, I believe, brought him the least money. So far as I remember, L7000 was to have been paid for "Edwin Drood" if he had lived to complete the story in twelve monthly numbers...