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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Classic mystery
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Young Edwin Drood disappears after a tense evening in the cathedral town of Cloisterham, leaving suspicion around his opium-haunted uncle John Jasper and hot-tempered rival Neville Landless. Jasper's respectable role as choirmaster conceals an obsessive attachment to Drood's fiancée Rosa Bud, while strangers and amateur investigators begin watching the people connected to the case. Dickens died before revealing whether Edwin was murdered or how the accumulating clues were meant to resolve. Sinister, compact, and permanently open-ended, this mystery suits a foggy night and readers who enjoy cathedral shadows, unreliable respectability, competing solutions, and the unusual pleasure of arguing over an ending that does not exist.
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