Editing Our Mutual Friend (section)

====Plot====
Many critics found fault with the plot, and in 1865, ''The New York Times''  described it as an "involved plot combined with an entire absence of the skill to manage and unfold it".<ref name="New Books 1865"/> In the ''London Review'', in the same year, an anonymous critic felt that "the whole plot in which the deceased Harmon, Boffin, Wegg, and John Rokesmith, are concerned, is wild and fantastic, wanting in reality, and leading to a degree of confusion which is not compensated by any additional interest in the story"<ref name="Unsigned Rev 1865">Unsigned Review, ''London Review'', 28 October 1865 quoted in  {{cite book |title=Dickens: The Critical Heritage |editor-first=Philip |editor-last=Collins |location=New York |publisher=Barnes & Noble |year=1971 |pages=456}}</ref> and he also found that "the final explanation is a disappointment."<ref name="Unsigned Rev 1865"/> However, the ''London Review'' also thought, that "the mental state of a man about to commit the greatest of crimes has seldom been depicted with such elaboration and apparent truthfulness."<ref>Unsigned Review, ''London Review'', 28 October 1865 quoted in {{cite book |title=Dickens: The Critical Heritage |editor-first=Philip |editor-last=Collins |location=New York |publisher=Barnes & Noble |year=1971 |pages=457}}</ref>