The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The mystery begins with the disappearance of the young architect Edwin Drood after a night of festivity, which was supposed to celebrate his reconciliation with a temporary enemy, Neville Landless. The celebration was held at the house of his uncle John Jasper and I find that the origin of doubt on the subject of the abrupt disappearance or murder of Edwin Drood to be indeed that of murder. After the examination of the vast array of characters in the story, the elimination of suspects dwindled down to two. The characters in alphabetical order are: 1) Mr. Bazzard, Grewgious’s clerk (Dickens Ch11, Page115) can be ruled out as a suspect. 2) Mrs. Billickin, Landlady resident in Southampton Street, Bloombury Square; she rents rooms to Rosa Bud (Dickens Ch. 22, page243) also ruled out as a suspect; 3) Miss Rosa Bud, orphan and pupil at Miss Twinkleton’s boarding school, engaged to Edwin Drood from childhood. They break off their engagement (Dickens Ch.13, ...