The Dead Secret

Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by John Atkinson Grimshaw, James McNeill Whistler and J. M. W. Turner. A dying woman dictates a confession, and her maid hides it in an unused room of a Cornish house rather than deliver it — where it waits fifteen years for the daughter it concerns. Collins wrote "The Dead Secret" in 1857, three years before "The Woman in White", and it is his fir...