The story is set in Cloisterham, a lightly fictionalised Rochester (in Kent, England). Neville Landless and Edwin Drood take a dislike to one another the moment they meet. Miss Bud is Drood's fiancée, and has also caught the eye of the high-spirited and hot-tempered Neville Landless! Landless comes from Ceylon with his twin sister, Helena. The novel is named after Edwin Drood, one of the characters, but it mostly tells the story of his uncle, a choirmaster named John Jasper, who is in love with his pupil, Rosa Bud. It is a mystery indeed the serial novel was just half completed at the time of Dickens' death - leading to much speculation on how it might have ended. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. LibriVox recording of The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens.
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