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Set in the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, this is Charles Dickens' final, unfinished mystery novel, left incomplete at his death in 1870. The story follows John Jasper, the troubled choir master who is secretly addicted to opium, his young nephew Edwin Drood, and the sudden, unexplained disappearance of Edwin on a stormy Christmas Eve. Suspicion immediately falls on Neville Landless, the hot-tempered young stranger who argued violently with Edwin the night he vanished. As Edwin's fiancée Rosa is drawn into danger, and Jasper's behavior grows more erratic, a mysterious white-haired stranger arrives in town, quietly gathering evidence that will unravel a decades-old secret. Included is the surviving fragment of the uncompleted final chapter, narrated by the pompous local auctioneer Mr. Sapsea, preserved exactly as Dickens left it.