Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden.

My name is Dan Schreiber and I'm sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin,

and Aniches Inzki, and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our

four favorite facts of the last seven days at a no particular order.

Here we go.

Starting with fact number one, and that's my fact this week, my fact is that in an attempt

to work out who the murderer and Charles Dickens' last unfinished novel was, the lead character

was put on trial.

So this is the mystery of Edwin Drew.

Yeah, this was the final novel of Charles Dickens that he was serializing in a newspaper.

There were meant to be 12 installments.

He only got as far as six before he passed away.

And as it was, the lead character, Edwin Drew, goes, he disappears.

And so we never know what happened to him.

And people ever since have been trying to work it out by looking for clues within it.

And so on, and in 1914, a mock trial was put on as part of an attempt to try and work

out who might have murdered him.

And the lead character of the book, John Jasper, was put on trial.

And it was full of celebrities.

The judge of the trial was G.K. Chesterton.

The foreman of the jury was George Bernard Shaw.

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