Pop Culture References
- In The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin, the protagonist adopts the pseudonym Datchery when asked to investigate a crime.
- Edwin Drood is the name of a fictional band from the TV series Jonathan Creek.
- Edwin Drood is the name of the protagonist in the novel The Man with the Golden Torc, the first novel in the Secret History series by Simon R. Green.
- The 1999 novel Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee references Edwin Drood as the novel that Lucy reads before the crime on her farm.
- A 2005 episode of the television series Doctor Who, "The Unquiet Dead", shows a fictional Charles Dickens, set the Christmas before his death, overcoming a skepticism of the supernatural and being inspired to write about the gaseous creatures that he fought with the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler, suggesting that his last novel will be completed as The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Blue Elementals, with Edwin's killer being "not of this earth" but blue creatures that were inspired by the Gelth.
- The 2009 novel Drood by Dan Simmons is a fictionalized account of the last five years of Dickens's life and the writing of and inspirations for the novel.
- The 2009 novel The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl is a fictionalized account of events after Dickens' death related to his unfinished novel.
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