Charles Dickens 
The Mystery of Edwin Drood 

A sense of impending evil hovers over a cathedral town, where one man, an outwardly respectable opium addict, is consumed with jealousy over the engagement of his nephew, Edwin Drood, to a lovely young lady. So enraged is he, that he even plots the younger man’s murder. But Drood’s sudden disappearance halts further scheming and leaves only one big mystery. What happened to Edwin Drood? And what became of his body?

Unfinished at the time of his death, Charles Dickens’s intriguing story has become all the more tantalizing for its lack of an ending, leaving a grim puzzle that avid readers, over the years, have tried to solve. A gem for lovers of murder mysteries and the legions of Dickens fans,
The Mystery of Edwin Drood remains a gripping and haunting masterpiece.

Table of Content

Introduction by G. K. Chesterton

I The Dawn

II A Dean, and a Chapter Also

III The Nuns’ House

IV Mr. Sapsea

V Mr. Durdles and Friend

VI Philanthropy in Minor Canon Corner

VII More Confidences Than One

VIII Daggers Drawn

IX Birds in the Bush

X Smoothing the Way

XI A Picture and a Ring

XII A Night with Durdles

XIII Both at Their Best

XIV When Shall These Three Meet Again?

XV Impeached

XVI Devoted

XVII Philanthropy, Professional and Unprofessional

XVIII A Settler in Cloisterham

XIX Shadow on the Sun-Dial

XX A Flight

XXI A Recognition

XXII A Gritty State of Things Comes On

XXIII The Dawn Again

Appendix: The ‘Sapsea Fragment’