by Wilkie Collins · Phébus · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782859406738
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When the elderly Allan Armadale writes his terrible confession on his deathbed, he cannot even imagine the repercussions that this letter will have when his newborn son reads it years later. For the second time, two men with the same name and the same last name will be involved in the pursuit of an inheritance that seems cursed. Meanwhile, the stealthy intrigues of Lydia Gwilt, a mysterious and perverse character who horrified Victorian readers and who still overwhelms today, follow one another. A woman who came to be defined by critics as "one of the most seasoned villains." With these threads and the complicity of the reader, the master Wilkie Collins weaves an enveloping and seductive plot that struggles between confused identities, inherited curses, love rivalries, espionage… and murders.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
