The Mystery of Edwin Drood was Charles Dickens’s last novel, left unfinished at his death in June 1870. Set in the cathedral city of Cloisterham (modeled on Rochester), it centers on the disappearance of the young Edwin Drood and the dark, opium-haunted figure of his uncle John Jasper. As a mystery — uniquely for Dickens — its solution died with its author, and the novel has fascinated readers and scholars ever since.
Even incomplete, the book shows Dickens’s powers at their most atmospheric and controlled. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg to read the novel that has kept literary detectives guessing for over 150 years.