Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)

Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)

Year: 1935

Genres: murder mystery

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870. It was his final novel and was left unfinished when he died. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, who lusts after his pupil, Rosa Bud. Miss Bud, Edwin Drood's fiancée, has also caught the eye of the high-spirited and hot-tempered Neville Landless. 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. At the death of Dickens on 9 June 1870, the novel was left unfinished in his writing desk, only six of a planned twelve instalments having been written. He left no detailed plan for the remaining installments or solution to the novel's mystery, and many later adaptations and continuations by other writers have attempted to complete the story.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a 1935 American melodrama film directed by Stuart Walker and based on the unfinished 1870 novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens.  In the film,  school choirmaster John Jasper, who is secretly an opium addict, becomes obsessed with his nephew Edwin Drood's fiancée, Rosa Bud. After a dinner party intended to reconcile tensions between Edwin and another suitor, Neville Landless, Edwin mysteriously disappears, leading to accusations and a dark unraveling of secrets.

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