"A suspenseful mystery with psychologically penetrating characters, The Dead Secret displays the talent and energy which made Collins the most popular novelist of the 1860s
The Dead Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her illegitimate daughter, and buried secrets in a superb blend of romance and Gothic drama.
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was a popular and influential English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer. Renowned for his sensational mysteries and romances, he had been hailed as the inventor of the detective novel."