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The Dead Secret

Wilkie Collins

Novelsabout 15 h 15 min of listening

A maidservant is forced by her dying mistress to conceal a deep family secret, at great personal cost to herself.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. I: The Twenty-Third of August, 1829
  3. II: The Child
  4. III: The Hiding of the Secret
  5. I: Fifteen Years After
  6. II: The Sale of Porthgenna Tower
  7. III: The Bride and Bridegroom
  8. I: Timon of London
  9. II: Will They Come?
  10. III: Mrs. Jazeph
  11. IV: The New Nurse
  12. V: A Council of Three
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  1. VI: Another Surprise
  2. I: A Plot Against the Secret
  3. II: Outside the House
  4. III: Inside the House
  5. IV: Mr. Munder on the Seat of Judgment
  6. V: Mozart Plays Farewell
  7. I: An Old Friend and a New Scheme
  8. II: The Beginning of the End
  9. III: Approaching the Precipice
  10. IV: Standing on the Brink
  11. V: The Myrtle Room
  12. VI: The Telling of the Secret
  13. I: Uncle Joseph
  14. II: Waiting and Hoping
  15. III: The Story of the Past
  16. IV: The Close of Day
  17. V: Forty Thousand Pounds
  18. VI: The Dawn of a New Life
  19. Colophon
  20. Uncopyright

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