by Wilkie Collins · Editions Phébus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782744140242
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In this gripping novel by Wilkie Collins, young Valeria discovers after her wedding that her husband, Eustace Woodville, hides a past full of mysteries under the name Macallan. Determined to uncover the truth, Valeria confronts an oppressive society that uses the law to cover up crimes such as blackmail and murder. Originally published in 1875, this work is considered one of the first literary thrillers to feature a woman as a protagonist and detective, cementing Collins as a master of Victorian suspense.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
