The Mystery of Edwin Drood

novel by Dickens

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History

The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished novel by English author Charles Dickens, published posthumously in 1870. Only 6 of the 12 projected parts had been completed by the time of Dickens’s death. Although Dickens had included touches of the gothic and horrific in his earlier works, Edwin Drood was his only true mystery story. He left few clues as to how he intended to end the work, and the solution itself remains a mystery. Edwin...