The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens's final novel—and literature's greatest unsolved mystery. When Dickens died in 1870, he left Edwin Drood half-finished, and the identity of Edwin's murderer (if he was murdered at all) has been debated ever since. What remains is a dark, atmospheric tale of obsession, opium, and evil lurking beneath respectable Victorian society. John Jasper, the cathedral choirmaster, harbors a secret passion for his nephew Edwin's fiancée—and perhaps darker secrets still. The novel we have is Dickens at his most Gothic and psychologically complex. The novel we'll never have might have been his masterpiece. A Raven's Gate Classics edition.