A prison governor recalls the night before a woman’s execution, when a Dissenting minister agreed to adopt her infant daughter. Years later two girls grow up under his roof, Eunice and Helena, and only he knows which one is the murderess’s child. Collins builds his late novel around the Victorian fear that crime runs in the blood, told through diaries and testimonies.
Wilkie Collins’s last completed novel, a suspense story that tests heredity against upbringing. Download the free EPUB.