Dickens's "The Mystery of ___ Drood"

EDWIN

This unfinished novel’s title character shares a first name with a famous 19th-century English poet.

This clue refers to an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens, where the title includes a man's first name. "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" was left incomplete when Dickens died, so the answer is the missing first name, "EDWIN." No wordplay is involved—it’s a straightforward literary reference to one of Dickens’s lesser-known works.