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Wilkie Collins tells the story of Magdalen Vanstone. When she and her sister are revealed as illegitimate, they are denied their inheritance and excluded from society. Her sister bows to her fate, but Magdalen herself is determined to overcome society's obstacles to claim her money and her position.
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This 1866 novel is Dostoevsky's great fictional study of the criminal mind, in the character of the student Raskolnikov, who murders an aged pawnbroker. Initially, Raskolnikov believes that the killing was entirely justified, but as the novel proceeds he becomes tortured by his guilt, and begins to question all his most passionately held beliefs. Eventually, while the wily police inspector Porfiry Petrovich simply waits, Raskolnikov--prompted by Sonia, a prostitute who is devoted to him--breaks down and confesses. Despite its bleak subject matter, the novel holds out the possibility of redemption; it is also an indictment of the social conditions in which the action unfolds.
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Laurence Fife was a slick divorce lawyer and
slippery ladies man. Until someone killed him. The
jury believed that it was his pretty young wife
Nikki, so they sent her to prison for eight years.
Now, Nikkis out on parole and Kinsey Miihones in
for trouble. Nikki hires Kinsey to discover who
really killed her husband. But the trail is eight
years cold, and at the end is a chilling twist even
Kinsey doesn't suspect -- a second eight-year-old
murder and a brand new corpse.
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A group of mystery aficionados gather at a church in Bath, England, to discuss the merits of their favorite genre of detective fiction, and discover that one of the people in the room has stolen a priceless stamp in this locked room mystery.
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