Chèli's Shelves: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

11/24/11

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Read: November 18 - November 23

Format: e-book 627 pages

Source: Barnes & Noble

Subject: spousal abuse, mistaken identity, marriage for profit

Challenges: 11 in 11, 75 Book, TIOLI, BOYS

Category: The good old days

Genre: Historical Fiction

Stars: ★★½

This book is touted as one of the first detective stories ever written and if they all had followed this book in style and tedium I never would have read another. Maybe because of all the books that I have read that are better written and more of my time frame, I found this book to be too predictable and the characters 1 dimensional.

Not something that I would recommend.

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