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Svarta stugan
Collins, WilkieModernistaDen unga Bessie får i uppdrag att vakta en plånbok åt ett rikt par. Hon lämnas ensam kvar i hemmet medan hennes far arbetar, deras ensliga stuga blir mål för ett par inbrottstjuvar...
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Den misslyckade detektiven
Collins, WilkieModernistaDen misslyckade detektiven är en finurlig detektivnovell skriven i form av brev mellan Överinspektör Theakstone och detektiven Matthew Sharpin, som försöker lösa en stöld. I svens...
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No Thoroughfare
Dickens, Charles; Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontWhat happens if two boys are given the exact same name? If you guessed 'disaster in adulthood', you would be right. When one of the men dies, there is an exciting adventure to find...
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Rambles Beyond Railways
Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontYou’ve gotta love those travel documentaries with celebrities awkwardly trying to make their interactions with locals seem impromptu and organic. Perhaps it’s best to let the write...
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Poor Miss Finch
Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontWhat is "poor" about Miss Finch? Well, with a novel with names like "Mr Sebright" (he’s an eye specialist – "see bright", geddit?), it’s all about sight. You see, Lucilla Finch has...
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Man and Wife
Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontImagine as a woman losing all your property to your husband. Sadly, such was the law for much of the Victorian times. Wilkie Collins’s novel "The Woman in White" (starring Charles...
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Little Novels
Collins, WilkieSaga Egmont"Little Novels" isn’t quite a "Little Women" spin-off, as the title might suggest. While you won’t be treated to Timothée Chalamet, you will be treated to fourteen short stories –...
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Jezebel's Daughter
Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontIf you’ve seen "The Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis, you’ll be familiar with Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome: deliberately making a person feel unwell in order to care for them. In "Je...
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Armadale
Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontJoaquin Phoenix won an Oscar for playing the Joker, capturing the psychologically dark personality of a villain. Critics were stunned – just as how the villainous character of Lydi...
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No Name
Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontDr Phil didn’t invent family drama. This Victorian novel might as well be given the Dr Phil caption of "I found out my parents weren’t married, and my cousin won’t give me my inher...
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My Lady's Money
Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontOk, nobody wants to lose pund500 – but is it big enough of a deal to deserve a short story? To put it into context: a Victorian pund500 was about pund60,000 in today’s money. So, y...
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The Trial for Murder
Dickens, Charles; Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontWhen you think of Charles Dickens’ ghost stories, you may first think of ‘A Christmas Carol’ and the ghosts that visit Scrooge. However, ‘The Trail for Murder’ is perhaps Dickens’...
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Hide and Seek
Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontMadonna, the Queen of Pop, was not the first to be named in honour of the graceful Madonna in art. The focal point of this novel, Mary, is affectionately known as "Madonna" on acco...
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The Moonstone
Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontA giant diamond stolen from India; a rakish rogue; a naive teenager and a drug-fueled scandal. These are the leading parts that combine to make one of the greatest detective novels...
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The New Magdalen
Collins, WilkieSaga Egmont"You don’t have to put on the red light", as Sting sings – except this female main character, Mercy Merrick, comes to that conclusion herself. Originally written as a play, "The Ne...
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The Law and the Lady
Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontCagney and Lacey may be the most iconic female detective duo, but who was the fictional female sleuth who started it all? Nancy Drew? Maybe Miss Marple? Nope – one of the first lit...
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The Black Robe
Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontYou’ve probably read or seen a film based on an epistolary novel (a story presented through letters sent between characters): "Persuasion", "Dracula", and "The Perks of Being a Wal...
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A Rogue's Life
Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontIf you have ever come across the word 'rogue' before, chances are you have either been playing video games, perused old X-Men comics or have overheard it as part of your aunt's voc...
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The Haunted Hotel
Collins, WilkieSaga EgmontOld-timey horror is often a hard sell to a modern, visually-oriented audience whose palettes have long been cleansed, and numbed, by jumpscares, the gorefests of SAW-movies and the...
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The Fallen Leaves
Collins, WilkieSaga Egmont'The Fallen Leaves' is a British garage rock group that formed in Richmond, London in 2004. Their most commercially successful release was 2013's 'If Only We'd Known' with their to...