The next day, Edwin visits Rosa at the Nuns' House, the boarding school where she lives. Edwin confides that he has misgivings about his betrothal to Rosa Bud, which had been previously arranged by their respective fathers. The next evening, Edwin Drood visits Jasper, who is the choirmaster at Cloisterham Cathedral and is also his uncle. The novel begins as John Jasper leaves a London opium den. He left no detailed plan for the remaining instalments or solution to the novel's mystery, and many later adaptations and continuations by other writers have attempted to complete the story.
Upon 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. The story is set in Cloisterham, a lightly disguised Rochester. Later Drood disappears under mysterious circumstances. Landless and Edwin Drood take an instant dislike to each other. Miss Bud, Edwin Drood's fiancée, has also caught the eye of the high-spirited and hot-tempered Neville Landless. 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. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870.
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