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Mystery of Edwin Drood

Published
2000
Language
English

Synopsis

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is Charles Dickens's final unfinished novel, published posthumously in 1870. Set in Cloisterham — a thinly veiled Rochester — it follows the unraveling fate of young Edwin Drood and his fiancée Rosa Bud as their lives become entangled with Jasper, Edwin's opium-addicted uncle and choirmaster at the local cathedral. What begins as a tale of courtship curdles into something darker: obsession, betrayal, and a murder that remains unsolved by the book's end — Dickens left no notes or plan for how he intended to resolve his own mystery.

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Characters

Edwin DroodProtagonist

A young man and the novel's namesake, betrothed to Rosa Bud; his mysterious disappearance sets the plot in motion.

Rosa BudSupporting
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