"The Dead Secret: A Novel" by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century fiction novel centering on Captain Treverton, his wife, and Sarah Leeson, a lady's maid haunted by a hidden history. The tale commences with intense drama during Mrs. Treverton's final moments as her attendants, as the dying woman seeks out Sarah to impart a final request that threatens to change everything for everyone. As Mrs. Treverton makes her last wishes known to Sarah, they reveal a deep-seated secret filled with grief. The depiction of Mrs. Treverton's failing health, combined with Sarah's anxious and sympathetic behavior, creates a noticeable tension, as Mrs. Treverton insists on sharing her secret with her husband, with Sarah as a witness, triggering events that will have lasting consequences for them all.
The Dead Secret: A Novel
By Wilkie Collins
In a house filled with secrets, a dying woman's last wish ignites a chain of events that could shatter lives and expose a truth long buried.
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About the AuthorWilliam Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
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