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Last Sunday, just a few days after BBC2 had broadcast the newly completed version of Dickens’s Edwin Drood (TV review, 11 January), Carlo Fruttero, an Italian author most famous as the literary partner of Franco Lucentini, died at his home, aged 86. I was struck by a curious coincidence – and I quote from Philip Willan’s obituary of Fruttero’s partner Franco Lucentini, in the Guardian, 9 August 2002: “In 1989, the intrepid pair embarked on the completion of Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel The Mystery Of Edwin Drood.
published date:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:00:03 GMT