Original Publication
The Mystery of Edwin Drood was scheduled to be published in twelve installments (shorter than Dickens's usual twenty) from April 1870 to March 1871, each costing one shilling and illustrated by Luke Fildes. Only six of the installments were completed before Dickens's death in 1870. It was therefore approximately half finished.
- I: April 1870 (chapters 1–4)
- II: May 1870 (chapters 5–9)
- III: June 1870 (chapters 10–12)
- IV: July 1870 (chapters 13–16)
- V: August 1870 (chapters 17–20)
- VI: September 1870 (chapters 21–23)
Planned installments never published:
- VII: October 1870
- VIII: November 1870
- IX: December 1870
- X: January 1871
- XI: February 1871
- XII: March 1871
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