Caragiale also began work on the fragmentary writing "Soborul țațelor" ("The Council of Busibodies", 1929) and the detective story "Sub pecetea tainei" ("Under the Seal of Secrecy", 1930), but they would remain unfinished. In its first draft, "Sub pecetea tainei" was published by "Gândirea" in April 1930-April 1933, while "Soborul țațelor" was kept in three different variants. In a 1985 essay later published as a preface for "Sub pecetea tainei", literary critic Nicolae Manolescu proposed that, while the story was not given a finishing touch, its plot was meant to seem ambiguous, and thus had led other commentators to wrongly assume that the text ended abruptly.