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The Woman in WhiteThe Woman in White
On a moonlit road a young drawing master meets a terrified woman dressed all in white, escaped from an asylum, and is drawn into a labyrinth of stolen identity, a sinister aristocrat, and a fortune. The first and greatest of the “sensation” novels.
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A page-turner a century and a half ahead of its time, twisty, atmospheric, and genuinely gripping, with the magnificent villain Count Fosco. The book that taught the thriller how to work.
SettingVictorian England, 1850s
Respectable Victorian England, where a woman's identity, fortune, and freedom could pass wholly into her husband's hands, and a person could be quietly erased with money and a doctor's signature.