WILKIE COLLINS

Lewis Romayne sembra avere tutto per essere felice: giovane, di bell’aspetto, agiato, conduce una tranquilla vita di studioso nella sua splendida residenza di campagna, Vange Abbey. Ma un avvenimento funesto tronca bruscamente la sua serenita?: durante un viaggio in Francia, l’uccisione di un uomo in duello porta con se? un carico di oscuri rimo...

This eBook edition of "THE LAW AND THE LADY (A Detective Thriller)" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "The Law and the Lady" is a detective story. Valeria Brinton marries Eustace Woodville despite objections from Woodville's family leading to disquiet for Valeria's own family and fri...

"The Woman in White" is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of "sensation novels". The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with the hero, Walter Hartright, employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. Walter...

Ernest salva per caso la giovane Mary da un incendio. Lei, qualche mese dopo, accetta di sposarlo. Ma un misterioso telegramma firmato da un uomo sconosciuto avverte Ernest che la sua sposa è un’assassina e una bugiarda, accusandola di aver ucciso il suo primo marito. Chi è quell'uomo? Quali misteri si celano dietro il bel viso della sua sposa, ...

"Armadale" is a mystery novel. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows u...

"The Moonstone" is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel. Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a larg...

"Il Poliziotto e la Cuoca (Mr. Policeman and the Cook) di Wilkie Collins, traduzione a cura di Donatella Salviola.Il poliziotto e la cuoca è un breve racconto di Collins sulla vendetta, l’omicidio e l’indagine. Chi ha ucciso Zebedee? era il titolo originale. Sul letto di morte, il narratore descrive un caso di omicidio in cui si è trovato coinv...

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