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When Rachel Verinder turns eighteen she inherits a large and spectacular diamond known as The Moonstone from an uncle who had served in the British Army in India. Unaware of the importance of the di……続きを見る

Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- ……続きを見る

The honour of founding the modern detective story belongs to an American writer. Such tales as "The Purloined Letter" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" still stand unrivalled. We in America no mor……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Natalie Graybrooke is the only and much-loved daughter of Sir Joseph Graybrooke, a wealthy industrialist. Adv……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: An editor introduces the confession of a former star of the Paris stage who leaves her life of vice and sin t……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Originally published in 1877, Wilkie Collins's My Lady's Money is a social comedy about theft. A bank note is……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The Queen of Hearts is a collection of ten short stories set within a connecting narrative. ‘The Queen of Hea……続きを見る

Ce que peut supporter la patience d’une femme, ce que peuvent accomplir le courage et la constance d’un homme, cette histoire le dira. Si tout événement qui prête aux soupçons pouvait être éclairci ……続きを見る

The Haunted Hotel is a less popular work - a gothic story with fascinating characters, tormented rooms, and outrageous relationships.Without ruining the plot, there is a great deal to making it an e……続きを見る

Extrait : Ce que peut supporter la patience d’une femme, ce que peuvent accomplir le courage et la constance d’un homme, cette histoire le dira. Si tout événement qui prête aux soupçons pouvait être……続きを見る

Core blimey, mate! It’s British Mystery Multipacks Volume 11, a crackling cornucopia of classic cozy mysteries from across the pond: The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, and its sequel ……続きを見る

The Moonstone is one of the most famous suspense novels of all time: a masterpiece of construction and the ultimate page-turner, it introduced one of the world’s most beloved genres, the detective s……続きを見る

The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless s……続きを見る

*** Original and unabridged content. Easy to read version. *** The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the o……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: After many years in the goldfields of California, Matthew Grice returns home to search for Mary, a disabled c……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: After Dark is Wilkie Collins’s first collection of six short stories, published in 1856. The book is a series……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Horror Lies Waiting. A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instru……続きを見る

Who is the mysterious solitary woman dressed in white who accosts Walter Hartright late one night near London's Hampstead Heath? Why does she bear such an uncanny resemblance to Walter's student, th……続きを見る

Published in 1888, "The Legacy of Cain" is the final novel completed by Wilkie Collins. The novel explores the theme of hereditary evil, and attacks the idea that 'bad blood' necessarily results in ……続きを見る

The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859–1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels ……続きを見る