Wilkie Collins, along with Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, is deservedly considered one of the founders of the detective genre. Whole generations of readers have been enthralled by his novels such as “The Moonstone,” “The Woman in White,” and “My Answer Is No.” The novel “No Right of Inheritance” is published in Russian for the first time.
A tragic case leaves a young woman from an aristocratic family not only without inheritance, but even without the family name. Yet the talented, energetic beauty has no intention of surrendering to fate’s will—she will devote all her ingenuity and desperate boldness to restoring justice. The truth is, to do that, many will have to give up something…