Victorian mystery/thriller; a thickish volume, but an easy read. Different sections narrated by different protagonists - innovative in its day. A rather big coincidence is crucial to the plot (and some lesser ones), but such contrivance is not unusual in the genre. Double doses: 2 heroes, 2 villains...
This was the book that helped me fall in love with classics after a hate-hate relationship with them in High School. I will always thank my dear friend Paule for buying me this book.
What took me so long to read this wonderful suspenseful and well written classic? I rarely read mysteries and I was really surprised to find that a book first published in 1859 could be so chilling and mysterious and be as fresh and exciting today as it was in 1859 I started reading the book as par...
The elderly lady, when I was presented to her, proved to be Miss Fairlie's former governess, Mrs. Vesey, who had been briefly described to me by my lively companion at the breakfast-table, as possessed of "all the cardinal virtues, and counting for nothing." I can do little more than offer my humble...
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