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During one of Drood’s visits to Cloisterham, a young English couple arrives there from Ceylon, where they had been orphaned. The young woman, Helena Landless, who is Rosa Bud’s age, enters the...
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished novel by 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.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood is set in the town of Cloisterham, England. This small town houses a Cathedral and a boarding school for girls. Miss Twinkleton is in charge of the girls in the Nuns' House. Rosa Bud is a teenage girl who has lived at the Nuns' House since the death of her parents when she was five years old. Other members of the church a...
Mr. Grewgious meets with Edwin Drood and gives him the ring that belonged to Rosa Bud's mother. Mr. Grewgious asks Edwin Drood to return the ring if he decides not to marry Rosa Bud. Edwin Drood and Rosa Bud end their engagement the very next day. One evening John Jasper and Durdles head down into the crypts to tour the tombs. Durdles becomes intox...
Mr. Crisparkle visits Neville Landless in London. John Jasper follows Mr. Crisparkle there and lurks outside Mr. Grewgious's place. John Jasper and Crisparkle unite and go out for dinner. Neville Landless encounters a man named Tartar who is lurking on the windowsill when Neville Landless returns from a walk. Mr. Tartar tells Neville Landless that ...
Back in the town of Cloisterham, John Jasper decides to take time away from work and decides to go to London to the opium den. Princess Puffer questions John Jasper while he is under the influence of opium. She follows him when he leaves. She runs into Dick Datchery and tells him about her encounter with Edwin Drood the previous year. The next day ...
Landless and Edwin Drood take an instant dislike to each other. Later Drood disappears under mysterious circumstances. The story is set in Cloisterham, a lightly disguised Rochester .
- Fildes, Luke, Sir, Charles Dickens
- Serialized and book form 1870
- 1870
- Chapman & Hall, London
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a musical written by Rupert Holmes based on the unfinished Charles Dickens novel of the same name. The show was the first Broadway musical with multiple endings (determined by audience vote). The musical won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical; from among eleven nominations.
Dec 22, 2012 · Tony Award nominee Jessie Mueller, who takes on the mysterious Helena Landless in Charles Dickens' final — and unfinished — story, explains how The Mystery of Edwin Drood is unraveled on...
She has also caught the eye of high-spirited and ill-tempered Neville Landless (who came from Ceylon with his twin sister Helena). When Drood is murdered, the killer must be found...that is if Drood is really dead. Source: Dickens, C. (1870). The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London, England: Chapman and Hall. Chapter 1: The Dawn
