Author William Wilkie Collins

This work of one of the instigators of the detective direction in the literature of W. Collins was not published in Russia for many years. Only the loyalty of his wife and love for his son allowed Luis Romain to throw off the hard paths and make the right decision.

The novel "New Magdalene" tells the story of the life of a girl who by fate found himself at the bottom of society. However, the high spiritual and moral qualities of her soul, the help of a loved one help to overcome all obstacles on the way to happiness.

The novels offered to readers have not been published in Russia for many years. They are full of melodramatism, sometimes they are present and elements of mysticism. Heroes of the novel "Two Destinies" from childhood love each other, but evil rock for many years separates them. Having managed to keep their feelings clean, the lovers, having gone through all the trials, finally connect their lives.

"Woman in White" is not only one of the first detective novels, but also one of the best and fascinating sensational novels in world literature. Immediately after publication, he had phenomenal success with readers, overshadowing the success of Dickens himself, with whom Collins was friends and repeatedly enjoyed his support and help. Full of surprises, dynamic, intriguing and mysterious, this novel continues to captivate readers today. This story begins at midnight, with something of an extraordinary encounter between the artist Walter Hartwright and a ghostly woman dressed in all white, who desperately wants to share some secret. The next day, hired as a teacher Hartwright to the beautiful Laura Fairley and her half-sister Marian Glocombe, tells his students about his strange meeting. Young people decide to find out everything possible about a mysterious woman in white. These three do not even know what abyss of chilling horror and large-scale intrigues they will get, making this decision.