"Oh, my God! to think of that kind-hearted, lovely young woman, who
brings happiness with her wherever she goes, bringing terror to me!
Terror when her pitying eyes look at me; terror when her kind voice
speaks to me; terror when her tender hand touches mind!" Porthgenna
Tower on the remote western Cornish coast. Moments before her
death, Mrs Treverton dictates a secret to her maid, never to be
passed to her husband as she had instructed. Fifteen years later,
when Mrs Treverton's daughter, Rosamond, returns to Porthgenna with
her blind husband, Leonard, she is intrigued by the strange and
seemingly disturbed Mrs Jazeph's warning not to enter the Myrtle
Room in the ruined north wing. Strong-minded and ingenious,
Rosamond's determined detective work uncovers shocking and
unsettling truths beyond all expectation. A mystery of unrelenting
suspense and psychologically penetrating characters, The Dead
Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her
illegitimate daughter, and buried secrets in a superb blend of
romance and Gothic drama. Wilkie Collins's fifth novel, The Dead
Secret anticipates the themes of his next novel, The Woman in White
in its treatment of mental illness, disguise and deception, and the
dispossession of lost identity. Yet a series of comic figures
offsets the tension, from the dyspeptic Mr Phippen to the
perpetually smiling governess, Miss Sturch. Displaying the talent
and energy which made Collins the most popular novelist of the
1860s, The Dead Secret represents a crucial phase in Collins's rise
as a mystery writer, and was his first full-length novel written
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