The owner of an old estate is dying, leaving behind a deathbed letter—in it, she makes a fateful confession. But the maid can’t bring herself to reveal the secret: right after her mistress’s death, she hides the letter and disappears without a trace.
The widower, along with his little daughter, Rosemond, is left alone in the enormous mansion, and he doesn’t even suspect that in one of the abandoned rooms there has long been an answer to all his questions…
Many years will pass before the Dead Room parts with its terrible secret. A gripping detective story by Wilkie Collins, the author of “The Moonstone” and “The Woman in White.”