Charles Dickens

The Mystery of Edwin Drood Annotated Charles Dickens

Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud once he comes of age, however after they realize that duty has bit by bit replaced affection, they conform to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, within the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, departure nothing behind but some personal belongings and also the suspicion that his jealous uncle John Jasper, head over heels in love with Rosa, is that the killer. And on the far side this likely crime there are more intrigues: the dark controlled substance dens of the asleep cathedral city of Cloisterham, and the sinister double lifetime of precentor Jasper, whose drug-filled phantasy life belies his respectable appearance.