![]() ![]() What makes them particularly interesting is not that each one changes, deletes, or adds certain elements but that they tend to make the same changes. There have been several adaptations and parodies of this book. ![]() The book can be read online for free here. When they break into the room they find Hyde, having committed suicide by poison, and two letters explaining everything. Two months pass, during which time Jekyll seems to be at peace again, until his butler Poole contacts Utterson to report that a stranger has locked himself in the doctor's lab. Jekyll is clearly upset at this development, though he again reassures Utterson that everything is fine and reveals that Hyde has left him a note apologizing for everything and promising he shall not return. While Utterson continues to investigate his suspicions, Hyde is witnessed committing the savage murder of Sir Danvers Carew, a prominent Member of Parliament. Utterson starts to wonder if his client is being blackmailed, though Jekyll himself says there is nothing to worry about. Jekyll's friend and attorney, Gabriel John Utterson, is disturbed when he learns this - because Jekyll has just recently made Hyde the heir to his £250,000 estate. Edward Hyde, pays off the witnesses with a cheque signed by the eminently respectable scientist Dr. When a girl is brutally assaulted late one night, her attacker, calling himself Mr. Source of the Jekyll & Hyde trope, this 1886 book by Robert Louis Stevenson begins with a mystery. ![]()
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