The Dead Secret: A Novel

Wilkie Collins fourth published novel The Dead Secret is the story of Rosamond Treverton and the revelation of a secret that changes her life forever. Rosamond the daughter of a wealthy actress is married to a blind man Leonard Frankland. During childbirth her acting nurse Sarah gives Rosamund a cryptic warning to avoid the room in which the Secret is hidden. What is hidden in the room? What does she find out? A haunting past is coming for her that could prove disastrous for her and the entire estate. Wilkie Collins’s brilliant characters suspenseful plots and piercing look into Victorian-era society are on full display in this brilliant novel.