Name: La piste du crime (in French)
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Author: Cendrey, Camille De ; Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781724606075

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Translated by

Camille De Cendrey

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

560

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm

Weight

0.81 kg.

ISBN13

9781724606075

Synopsis "La piste du crime (in French)"

TEXTE INTÉGRAL TOME 1 et 2 Après de trop rapides fiançailles contre l'avis de sa famille, Valéria a finalement épousé Eustache Woodville. Elle découvre rapidement que son mari ne lui a pas tout raconté de son passé et elle va s'évertuer à découvrir son lourd secret... Cette intrigue, aux fils trompeurs et d'une fluidité délicate, est très agréable à lire. Le suspens est accru par le malin découpage des chapitres opéré par ce maître du roman policier anglais qu'est Wilkie Collins.

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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