The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens originally published in 1870. 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 is in love with 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.