Frank Aldersley becomes engaged to Clara Burnham on the eve of his departure on a journey to discover the Northwest Passage. Unbeknownst to him, Richard Wardour, his spurned rival, joins the crew of another ship belonging to the same expedition....

An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, abandons his fiancee for an enigmatic countess with a dark past, before moving with her and her brother, Baron Rivar - who is rumoured to be her lover, and is fond of gambling and alchemy - into a decayed Venetian palazzo....

When Rachel Verinder\"s legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved, Franklin Blake, who is guilty....

Cornwall is steeped in poetry, legend and storytelling. Join Luke Thompson on a literary tour around its dramatic coastline, its cliffs and coves, across the moor and down the mines....

On a moonlit night in north London, Walter Hartright encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white and feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. A sensation when it first appeared in 1860, this thriller exploits Victorian psychology as well as portraying the Victorian social scene....

Манит призрак Венеции? Познакомьтесь с её тайнами в «Таинственном отеле» Уилки Коллинза! Город дворцов, каналов, смерти и загадок ждёт вас. Уилки Коллинз – создатель первого детективного романа на английском языке, плодовитый писатель, мастер мистики и загадок....

Манит призрак Венеции? Познакомьтесь с её тайнами в «Таинственном отеле» Уилки Коллинза! Город дворцов, каналов, смерти и загадок ждёт вас. Уилки Коллинз – создатель первого детективного романа на английском языке, плодовитый писатель, мастер мистики и загадок....

A breathtaking classic of psychological suspense by the inventor of the detective novel, Wilkie Collins, with an afterword by writer, editor and playwright David Stuart Davies. Part of the Macmillan Collector\"s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers....

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared....

T. S. Eliot called The Moonstone ‘the first, the longest and the best of detective novels’. Combining a teasing plot with a vivid portrait of Victorian England, Collins makes his characters reveal themselves – and the solution to the mystery – by telling their own stories....

An enjoyable 19th century read following doomed happenings and grisly, secret premonitions. An eminent doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question: am I evil, or insane? When the letters from Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered....

The original \"sensation novel\", The Woman in White opens with Walter Hartright\"s eerie encounter with a strange, solitary woman on a moonlit London road....

An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins\"s Armadale was regarded by T.S. Eliot as \"the best of [his] romances\". This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Sutherland....

The Moonstone is one of the first true works of detective fiction, in which Wilkie Collins established the groundwork for the genre itself. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Sandra Kemp. The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder....

A witty, intricately-plotted exploration of a sudden fall from grace, the Penguin Classics edition of Wilkie Collins\"s No Name is edited with an introduction and notes by Mark Ford. Magdalen and her sister Norah, beloved daughters of Mr and Mrs Vanstone, find themselves the victims of a catastrophic oversight....