Charles Forsyte (1920–2009)

British Special Branch Inspector RIchard Left is sent to Istanbul to investigate the shooting of the British consul-general, whose body has vanished from the office where he was shot.

Forsyte makes a solid, well researched case for his ending to the Mystery of Edwin Drood, based on Dickens' comments to contemporaries, original illustrations, and other works with which Dickens would have been familiar and by which he was likely to have been influenced. The second half of the book is a plausible pastiche based on his conclusions. Truly enjoyable and believable.