![]() ![]() Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Droods uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, who lusts after his pupil, Rosa Bud. It was a good read but After Hours to me was more spectacular taking place in Carlito's later years. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens, 1 2 originally published in 1870. Edwin Novel Jewelry Design Inc Jewelry by Novel Inc (This business was suspended by the Franchise tax board) Gemological Grading Services Inc. ![]() ![]() How this book ends with Carlito losing the one thing he didn't appreciate until it was gone - his possible freedom and independence - gives you a windows as to why he was so adamant in After Hours novel/Carlito's Way film that he wasn't going after to jail no matter what. It also gives you a pretty good window of the mentality of a younger Carlito Brigante, a brash, arrogant, ambitious go-getting hood that feared nothing and let his greed and vision catch him slipping and find himself on the wrong radar of a lot of people and organizations. It's a nasty, grimy, crime soaked good time of a NYC Puerto Rican proving himself in jail and subsequently trying to be the best dope dealer he can be in the street to make as much money as he can before a bullet or jail take him out. This is the prequel story that tells you what happened to Carlito Brigante before the events of After Hours novel/Carlito's Way film. Edwin Hill is a suspense writer and author of the critically-acclaimed Hester Thursby mystery series, the first of which, Little Comfort, was an Agatha Award-finalist, a selection of the Mysterious Press First Mystery Club and a Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books selection. Edwin OConnor was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel The Edge of Sadness (1961). ![]()
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