The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest `Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction - Marion Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco, the sinister and flamboyant `Napoleon of Crime'. A masterwork of intricate construction, The Woman in White sets new standards of suspenseand excitement, and achieved sales which topped even those of Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor. | The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters