Title: The mystery of Edwin Drood
First published: May 2000
Description: The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final, uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens. John Jasper is a choirmaster who is in love with one of his pupils, Rosa Bud. She is the fiancee of his nephew, Edwin Drood. A hot-tempered man from Ceylon also becomes interested in her and he and Drood take an instant dislike to one another. Later, Drood disappears, and as Dickens never finished the novel, Drood's fate remains a mystery indeed.
Subjects: Missing persons, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction, Choral conductors, Separation (Psychology), British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, England in fiction, Choral conductors in fiction, Missing persons in fiction, Cathedrals, Cathedrals in fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, psychological, Missing persons, fiction, Classic Literature, Mystery, English literature, Manners and customs, English Detective and mystery stories, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Enlish literature, Detective and mystery stories
Places: England
People: Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Time periods: 19th century