List of incomplete novels finished by other authors
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The following is a list of incomplete novels finished by other authors.
| Title | Original author | Completing author(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Assassination Bureau, Ltd | Jack London | Robert L. Fish[1] | London wrote 20,000 words, but could not come up with a logical ending. |
| L'Astrée | Honoré d'Urfé | Balthazar Baro (4th part), Pierre Boitel, sieur de Gaubertin (5th and 6th parts) | D'Urfé completed three parts of this immense work (5399 pages). |
| Blind Love | Wilkie Collins | Walter Besant | Collins "left detailed plans for the last third of this novel".[2] |
| The Buccaneers | Edith Wharton | Marion Mainwaring[3][4] | |
| Eruption | Michael Crichton | James Patterson | Crichton was writing this novel while fighting cancer and his widow Sherri gave Patterson permission to finish the story.[5] |
| The Ghost-Seer | Friedrich Schiller | Hanns Heinz Ewers | |
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer | Annie Barrows | When Ms. Shaffer's health deteriorated, Ms. Barrows took over to finish the manuscript. She is listed as co-author. |
| Hornblower and the Crisis | C. S. Forester | Several | |
| The Knight of Sainte-Hermine | Alexandre Dumas | Claude Schopp | The nearly complete lost novel was rediscovered in 1990 by Dumas expert Schopp, who wrote three more chapters.[6] |
| The Last Theorem | Arthur C. Clarke | Frederik Pohl | Suffering from ill health and writer's block, Clarke asked Pohl to finish the novel. Clarke reviewed and approved the final manuscript just days before he died, but the critics' opinions were mixed. |
| Micro | Michael Crichton | Richard Preston[7] | It was based on an untitled, unfinished manuscript found on his computer. |
| The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens | Numerous | Six of 12 planned instalments (23 chapters) were published. |
| Poodle Springs | Raymond Chandler | Robert B. Parker | Chandler wrote four chapters, consisting of 31 pages. Ed Victor, the agent for his estate, asked Parker to supply the rest.[8] |
| Sanditon | Jane Austen | Numerous, including Anna Austen Lefroy, Austen's niece[9] | Austen finished 11 chapters. |
| St. Ives | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Quiller-Couch | Quiller-Couch wrote the final six chapters.[10] |
| Thrones, Dominations | Dorothy L. Sayers | Jill Paton Walsh[11] | |
| Under the Hill | Aubrey Beardsley | John Glassco | |
| The Watsons | Jane Austen | Numerous, including Joan Aiken |
See also
- Variable Star, a novel written by Spider Robinson based on the surviving seven pages of an eight-page 1955 novel outline by Robert A. Heinlein
- Continuator
- Continuation novel