The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
My rating: 3/5 cats
this is a weighty relic of a book. it’s pretty enjoyable, just don’t expect any surprises, unless you have missed the last 20 years of police procedurals on the television set. i’m sure in its day it was chock full of surprises, but i have to shudder at the contrivance of characters talking aloud to themselves while unbeknownst to them, people hide in cupboards or whatnot, overhearing exactly the information they are most desirous of. it does make me yearn for these times when it seems pulling a con was child’s play: no paper trails, no integrity of the postal service… so much trust.. so much weakness… in this society, i would be some kind of pirate queen, stealing identities at will, capturing heiresses, forging signatures.. and i would never, ever, make private, compromising, confessions in my chamber.
