The Mystery of Edwin Drood
In a cathedral town where the crypt and the quicklime are part of ordinary business, the choirmaster keeps a respectable surface over an opium habit and a concealed passion for his nephew's intended. The engagement is broken off amicably, a hot-tempered newcomer from Ceylon quarrels with the nephew in public, and on Christmas Eve, after a storm, the young man is not seen again. Dickens died with six of the twelve planned numbers written, leaving the only unfinished major work in his output and a solution that has been argued over ever since.
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- influenced by ↑ The Woman in White
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