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    <body><![CDATA[By the author of The Woman in White and Moonstone, this is an indictment of the old fashioned marriage laws in Victorian England, written as a cross between his &quot;thriller&quot; style (Woman in White) and Trollope's &quot;exposing hypocrisy&quot; style.  You would almost think it was written by ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36534549">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVE this book. Wilkie Collins is, of course, the inventor of the modern detective novel (The Moonstone), but he was also a writer of short stories and serial fiction in the nineteenth century (he was good friends with Charles Dickens). This book was intended as a commentary on the complex marriag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35058331">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite Wilkie Collins but nontheless a great classic book dealing with themes unique to the era. You can always rely on Collins to keep you guessing until the end. Suspense fiction got started with this author and as a contemporary/rival of Dickens you can expect a good read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wilkie Collins was not only a detective novelist, he was a writer who took up the cause of social injustices, but presented them in the form, somewhat, of a suspense novel.  In this novel, we are presented with the damsel in distress - because of antiquated and unbalanced marriage laws currently in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55156792">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as great as Armadale or The Woman in White, but vintage Wilkie for all that.  Partly the fault is the speechiness of some of the dialogue, partly the fact that there is no truly interesting female character.  Still puts most contemporary novels to shame, tho.]]></body>
    
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