Ooh, I hope we don't get Quilp!! He is one Dickens' character who always gives me nightmares! 
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I've just been trying to remember what Wegg does in his proper book - doesn't he live at the dust heaps, or is that Mr Venus? You see I am confused.Comment
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If I've got the right character - isn't he concerned to get his leg back, to ensure he can be buried with it?Originally posted by mercia View PostLast edited by ferneyhoughgeliebte; 30-01-16, 20:09.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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... yes, it is Silas Wegg who, having had a ballad-monger's stall in Cavendish Square, eventually moves in to "Boffin's Bower", and it is in poking around the Mounds (the dust Heaps) there that he discovers a Will....Originally posted by mercia View PostComment
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Clearly prime suspects then......Yes they were seen and heard briefly carousing in a back room of the 'Cripples' in the first episode, I thinkComment
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I'm still with it. I've been watching the week's two episodes on Saturday. Great stuff, especially Sairey and Fagin.
No idea who done it - probably the least likely, little Nell.
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Not too far from the truth perhaps mangerton - but not sweet little Nellie but Grandfather!Originally posted by mangerton View PostI'm still with it. I've been watching the week's two episodes on Saturday. Great stuff, especially Sairey and Fagin.
No idea who done it - probably the least likely, little Nell. Have we seen him? Has he been questioned? Is he away indulging his gambling habit - we don't know .......
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Ah - but unless Tony Jordan is going to take a colossal diabolical liberty (even bigger than the several he's taken so far) then it can't be any character who appears prominently in the novels - unless Bucket doesn't solve the murder. If he does, it'll have to be Mrs Biggetywitch.
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Well, according to the RT, next week Bucket's taken off the case, there is a new Detective and a new body ..... Who can that be? 
But then there's only 5 episodes left to wrap it up ..... so surely we'll get some clues?
I've been reading the BBC Blog about it and it seems it's been so successful they're thinking about possible plotlines for a second series asking for suggestions as to whose backstory people would like explored. Someone suggested Magwich!Comment
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With five* episodes left, there's plenty of time to introduce a new character who, it is discovered, arrived in London on around the 22nd Dec and who hasn't been seen so far. Name of Drood?
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There are possibilities of using the format with other 19th writers - what did Heathcliffe do in the "missing" years? Or Mr Rochester in between Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre? Jane Eyre's horrible half-siblings (and the story of her parents).Originally posted by Anna View Post
You couldn't call it Dickensian then, of course - they'd have to think up a new name.
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And who, pray, discovered this singular fact?Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
ferney - have you inside information pertaining to this particular case? Are you in fact Tony Jordan or a mole?
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Not the former, but I did spend a lot of last Summer digging up my garden.Originally posted by Anna View PostAnd who, pray, discovered this singular fact? ferney - have you inside information pertaining to this particular case? Are you in fact Tony Jordan or a mole? [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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ferney has been listening to John FinnemoreOriginally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Postferney has been listening to John Finnemore - I have - but I missed his reference: I actually nic ... err ... adapted it from Milton Babbitt.
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