Szerző Wilkie Collins

‘The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.’ Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the…

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When Rachel Verinder's birthday present - the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond - is stolen at her party, suspicion and the diamond's mysterious curse seem set to ruin everyone and everything she loves. Only Sergeant Cuff's famous detective skills offer…

Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Hartright's Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison.

Walter Hartright tehetséges festő lehetne, de szerény rajztanárként kénytelen tengetni életét. Rég megszokta, hogy érzelmeit a kabátjával együtt az előtérben hagyja, mikor előkelő családok kisasszonykáit tanítja a rajzolás alapjaira. A magára erőltetett…

To Mr. Collins belongs the credit of having introduced into fiction those most mysterious of mysteries, the mysteries which are at our own doors. This innovation gave a new impetus to the literature of horrors....Mr. Collin`s productions deserve a more…