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The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins
The Dead Secret
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780809599172 (0809599171)
Publisher: Wildside Press
Pages no: 340
Edition language: English
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Lora Hates Spam
Lora Hates Spam rated it
4.0 The Dead Secret
by Wilkie Collins A woman dies in childbirth, leaving a mysterious letter for her husband in the hands of her maid. The first part of the story established a mystery; what was in the letter? Why is the maid reluctant to give it to the husband as instructed? I found myself quickly caught up and rea...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
3.0 The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
bookshelves: autumn-2014, gothic, victorian, published-1856, winter-20142015 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Lora's Rants and Reviews Read from September 10 to December 02, 2014 Portman SquareRead here "I SIT DOWN UNASKED, AND I ANNOUNCE MY OWN NAME—ANDREW TREVERTON."Opening: BOOK I: CHAPTER I: T...
ReaderMarija's Reviews
ReaderMarija's Reviews rated it
3.0
The story of the Dead Secret would have made a great film in the 1940s. Imagine as an opening, a scary looking Joan Crawford lying on her death bead forcing a very nervy Jennifer Jones, her lady’s maid, to write a confession letter directed to Joan’s husband. The letter is never given to the husband...
wealhtheow
wealhtheow rated it
This book is insanely bad. Melodramatic, overwrought, moralistic, prejudiced in every possible way and just plain silly.
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