Charles Dickens 
The Mystery of Edwin Drood 

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870. Dickens began writing what would become his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, in 1870, with the plan of releasing a new instalment every month for a year. … He died a day later, thus leaving the ending of The Mystery of Edwin Drood…well, a mystery. John Jasper, a brooding, moody choirmaster at a finishing school in Victorian England, maintains a secret life that includes frequenting an opium den. His tortured mind becomes obsessed with a young student, Rosa Bud, who is engaged to his nephew Edwin Drood.