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Derues
by Alexandre DumasDerues is written by Alexandre Dumas as part of his novel series Celebrated crimes. Delve into the annals of criminal history with this spine-chilling volume from famed historical fiction writer Alexandre Dumas (pere). Antoine-Francois Desrues was an eighteenth-century French merchant who turned to poison as his weapon of choice when his financial ..
After Dark
by Wilkie CollinsAfter Dark is a collection of six short stories by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1856. It was the author's first collection of short stories. Five of the stories were previously published in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens. The stories are titled as belowLeaves from Leah's diaryThe traveler's story of a terribly strange b..
Armadale
by Wilkie CollinsArmadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. It is the third of his four 'great novels' of the 1860s: after The Woman in White and No Name, and before The Moonstone. The story spans two generations of the Armadale families and the complex plot combines several of Collins's favourite themes, including the supernatural, ide..
Basil
by Wilkie CollinsBasil (1852) is the second novel written by British author Wilkie Collins, after Antonina. Basil was published in 1852 and dedicated to Charles Ward. It was Collins's second full-length work of fiction and first contemporary novel. In the introduction, he warns the reader that he has 'not hesitated to violate the conventiona..
The Black Robe
by Wilkie CollinsWilkie Collins’s 1881 The Black Robe tells the story of the misadventures of Lewis Romayne in a novel which deals with depression, madness, a fatal duel, marital breakdown, capture by South American ‘natives’, ill-motivated religious conversion, bigamy and disinheritance. The somewhat mad premise is that scheming Jesuit Father Branwell is out to wi..
Blind Love
by Wilkie CollinsBlind Love is Wilkie Collins’s final novel. Although he did not live to complete the work, he left detailed plans for the last third of this absorbingly plotted novel which were faithfully executed by his colleague, the popular author Walter Besant. The novel is set during the Irish Land War of the early 1880s and tells the story of Iris Henley, an..
The Dead Alive
by Wilkie CollinsThe Dead Alive, also called John Jago’s Ghost, is a novella written in 1874 by Wilkie Collins based on the Boorn Brothers murder case. It was reprinted with a side-by-side examination of the case by Rob Warden in 2005 by Northwestern Press. This novel is based on the true-life Boorn Brothers murder conviction case of 1819. Jesse and Step..
The Dead Secret - A Novel
by Wilkie CollinsThe Dead Secret is Collins' last work before he struck gold with The Woman in White, and it marks a considerable step forward from the novels which preceded it. On her deathbed, Mrs Treverton, the wife of the wealthy Captain Treverton, dictates a confession to her maid, Sarah Leeson, to pass to her husband and makes her swear that she will never de..