The Search for Edwin Drood

Samuel Warden of the Detective Police had been forewarned. A message reached him at home that very morning suggesting he should settle his immediate affairs and arrive at the detectives headquarters, Great Scotland Yard, just off Trafalgar Square, ready for a few days in the country. He was to travel to Cloisterham, a town on the Medway, where six months before a young man, Edwin Drood, had disappeared, and find him whether he be dead or alive. See more