On an August night in 1829, the dying mistress of Porthgenna Tower in Cornwall makes her maid Sarah Leeson write down a secret. Sarah hides the letter in a shut-up room rather than deliver it. Fifteen years later the heiress Rosamond and her blind husband come back to the decaying house, while a frightened woman calling herself Mrs Jazeph tries to reach it first.
Collins’s first full-length mystery novel, written the year before The Woman in White. Download the free EPUB.