-The last unfinished story by Dickens. 1870 edition- This fifteenth novel, illustrated by Luke Fildes, was his last and was never completed. The story is a murder mystery in which Edwin Drood is supposedly murdered and suspicion is cast on... The novel was published posthumously in 1870. Much conjecture about the actual outcome of the novel has taken place and The Mystery of Edwin Drood remains a mystery to this day. This edition contains exactly the 1870 edition, with the famous 'Sapsea Fragment' as Appendix. Charles Dickens (British, 1812-1870) created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.