After many years in the goldfields of California, Matthew Grice returns home to search for Mary, a disabled circus performer and the daughter of his dead sister. But everything is not what it seems as Matthew's quest for the girl, and after, for the girl's father, takes him on an unexpected journey filled with seduction, abandonment and hidden identities.
After many years in the goldfields of California, Matthew Grice returns home to search for Mary, a disabled circus performer and the daughter of his d...
THE CLASSIC MYSTERY One of the first examples of the detective thriller novel. Art tutor Walter Hartright is drawn into a complex puzzle by a mysterious woman dressed entirely in white. He finds himself involved in a devious plot of kidnapping, stolen identity and a plan to illegally obtain a large sum of money. Met with a generally negative response on its initial release, Wilkie Collins' novel has become regarded as a classic, and one of the most influential novels of its time.
THE CLASSIC MYSTERY One of the first examples of the detective thriller novel. Art tutor Walter Hartright is drawn into a complex puzzle by a mysterio...
Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiance is forced to take an extended trip to Canada's drier climes in order to recover his health. Over the issue of her inheritance Mrs. Gallilee schemes to manipulate, control and ultimately destroy the naive but strong-willed Carmina. The story is complicated by the machinations of Dr. Benjulia, a dark genius whose passionate devotion to the study of diseases of the brain leads him to encourage the progress of Carmina's life-threatening brain...
Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiance...
Gerard Roylake returns from Germany on the death of his father to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. On his first evening he walks to the nearby River Loke, "the ugliest, muddiest stream in England" which runs back of an old mill, inhabited by the miller and recognises his childhood friend, Cristel Toller, the miller's beautiful daughter. He also meets a deaf man living at the mill known only as The Lodger... romantic jealousy, attempted murder and the disappearance of Cristel ensues.
Gerard Roylake returns from Germany on the death of his father to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. On his first evening he walks to the nearby...
Three years ago, her husband stood accused of murder -- and the verdict that came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury had not evidence enough to convict him -- nor enough to comfortably exonerate him. Eustace could not bear the weight of her discovery; he fled to the continent, to live in anonymity. But Valeria knew her husband, and she loved him. She knew he was innocent, too, with the sort of intuition that guides the lucky flawlessly. And she set out to prove it to the world.
Three years ago, her husband stood accused of murder -- and the verdict that came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury had ...
Excerpt luota ja lautturit laskemasta maalle sen tienoille. Pieni livakka katukivitys oli pitkallisella itsensa-kieltamisella painunut jokeen, ja pari kolme katkennutta vaajaa ynna ruostunut rautainen kiinnitysrengas, oli kaikki mita enaan jalella oli kadonneista "Kaulantaittaja"-laitoksista; silla tosin sattui joskus sysilla lastattu lossivene sinne eksymaan ja muutamat ahkerat niinkuin mudasta syntyneet sydenvetajat sinne ilmautumaan jattaen lastinsa ymparistolle, jalleen lykaten ulos rannasta ja kadoten; mutta enimmastipa koko liikenne Kaulantaittaja-portaan ymparilla oli siina, etta...
Excerpt luota ja lautturit laskemasta maalle sen tienoille. Pieni livakka katukivitys oli pitkallisella itsensa-kieltamisella painunut jokeen, ja pari...
Mercy Merrick has been tricked into the tragic life of a woman of the streets, after a childhood with strolling players and gypsies. She struggles to rehabilitate herself, inspired by a sermon given by a young clergyman, Julian Gray, in the refuge where she was living. Working as a volunteer nurse in the Franco-German war of 1870, she meets Grace Roseberry, a penniless but well-connected and respectable young woman. When Grace is apparently killed by a German shell, Mercy assumes her identity. Armed with a letter of introduction to Grace's relation by marriage, Lady Janet Roy, she is helped...
Mercy Merrick has been tricked into the tragic life of a woman of the streets, after a childhood with strolling players and gypsies. She struggles to ...
Frank then falls in love with Dr Dulcifer's daughter, Alicia, but discovers that her father is a counterfeit coin maker. Our likeable hero is unwillingly recruited into forging to compromise him as a felon. At this point the doctor considers him unsuitable as a son-in-law and sends Alicia away to Wales. The counterfeiters are betrayed to the Bow Street Runners but Frank escapes, finds Alicia and elopes with her to Scotland. Immediately after their wedding, Frank is arrested, tried and transported to Australia. As a model prisoner he becomes servant to his own wife who has travelled to the New...
Frank then falls in love with Dr Dulcifer's daughter, Alicia, but discovers that her father is a counterfeit coin maker. Our likeable hero is unwillin...
First published in 1878, The Haunted Hotel is among the later works of Wilkie Collins, famous for his 1868 novel The Moonstone, widely considered as the first modern English detective novel. The Haunted Hotel is notable for its atmosphere--a decaying palace in Venice--as well as intrigue among members of the aristocracy.
"Wilkie Collins invented the genre of the English detective novel." T.S. ELIOT
"Wilkie Collins is the author of probably the finest detective story ever written." DOROTHY L. SAYERS
"Collins authored the best detective tale in the...
First published in 1878, The Haunted Hotel is among the later works of Wilkie Collins, famous for his 1868 novel The Moonstone, wide...
