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The queen of hearts A novel

An early innovator in the genre of mystery and detective fiction, Wilkie Collins gained an enormous readership during his lifetime. Though many readers became hooked on his work due to his meticulous plotting and mastery with suspense, critics say that Collins' popularity endured as a result of his incisive social insight and commentary. The Queen of Hearts is a masterpiece of Victorian-era detective fiction and a rewarding read for fans of classic mysteries.

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  • "Queen of hearts"@en
  • "Mr. Lepel and the housekeeper"
  • "Mr. Lepel and the housekeeper"@en

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  • "The title story weaves an overarching narrative through several tales by which a young woman, Jessie Wales, is convinced to extend her visit with her former guardian and his two brothers. The three brothers promise to tell Jessie a new story each evening, thus detaining her until the guardian's son can return and declare his love. This volume also includes the story Mr. Lepel and the Housekeeper."
  • "An early innovator in the genre of mystery and detective fiction, Wilkie Collins gained an enormous readership during his lifetime. Though many readers became hooked on his work due to his meticulous plotting and mastery with suspense, critics say that Collins' popularity endured as a result of his incisive social insight and commentary. The Queen of Hearts is a masterpiece of Victorian-era detective fiction and a rewarding read for fans of classic mysteries."@en
  • "An early innovator in the genre of mystery and detective fiction, Wilkie Collins gained an enormous readership during his lifetime. Though many readers became hooked on his work due to his meticulous plotting and mastery with suspense, critics say that Collins' popularity endured as a result of his incisive social insight and commentary. "The queen of hearts" is a masterpiece of Victorian-era detective fiction and a rewarding read for fans of classic mysteries."@en
  • "An early innovator in the genre of mystery and detective fiction, Wilkie Collins gained an enormous readership during his lifetime. Though many readers became hooked on his work due to his meticulous plotting and mastery with suspense, critics say that Collins' popularity endured as a result of his incisive social insight and commentary. "The Queen of Hearts" is a masterpiece of Victorian-era detective fiction and a rewarding read for fans of classic mysteries."@en
  • "Collection of 10 short stories set within a connecting narrative. 'The Queen of Hearts' is the school nickname of Jessie Yelverton who arranges to stay for six weeks with her elderly guardian, Griffith, a retired lawyer. Griffith lives with his two brothers, Owen the clergyman and Morgan the doctor, in an isolated house in South Wales. Griffith's son, George, is in love with Jessie and the three brothers set out to delay her departure for ten days so that George can propose on his return from the Crimean war. In a kind of Arabian Nights story-telling, the three brothers draw on their professional experiences to entertain their young guest with a different story each evening."@en
  • "William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1860), The Moonstone (1868), Armadale (1866) and No Name (1862). His works were classified at the time as 'sensation novels', a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective fiction and suspense fiction. He also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women and on the social and domestic issues o."@en

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  • "Yellowbacks"@en
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Mystery and detective fiction"
  • "Mystery and detective fiction"@en
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  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Novels"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
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  • "English fiction"@en

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  • "La reine de coeur"
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  • "The Queen of Hearts : a novel"
  • "La reina de corazones"
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  • "Queen of hearts"
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  • "The Queen of hearts"
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  • "Queen of hearts Little novel: Mr. Lepel and the housekeeper"@en
  • "The queen of hearts Little novel: Mr. Lepel and the housekeeper"@en
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  • "The queen of hearts a novel"
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