The stories and tales of English and American writers presented in this book are united, with all the variety of characters and situations, by a common place...

The beautiful Countess Narona, who has earned the reputation of a femme fatale, is going to marry Lord Montbarry. Why is the countess so alarmed that on the ...

The moonstone, a huge yellow diamond that once adorned the brow of the moon god in one of the sacred Indian temples, was given to Rachel Verinder for her eig...

Wilkie Collins is an English writer who gained wide popularity thanks to his famous books “The Moonstone” and “The Woman in White.” The novel “My Answer is N...

Leon Gonzalez, George Manfred, Raymond Poiccard have earned the title of the Three Pious - they seek the restoration of law and justice. And of course, the T...

A girl named Mary Morstan turns to the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes for help. The girl and her brothers are the heirs of an enviable fortune, a treasu...

The first time he saw Her was in a dream. Then I met and fell in love in reality. And since then, nothing could prevent the inevitable denouement... The myst...

The book presents a rich collection of mystical, mysterious and creepy stories created by Western European and American writers of the 18th–20th centuries. F...

Wilkie Collins is one of the most famous writers of the Victorian era. The novels “The Woman in White” and “The Moonstone,” published in Charles Dickens’s ma...

The following story was written by the author during his travels in the United States of America and was first published in periodicals of New York and Londo...

The novels offered to readers have not been published in Russia for many years. They are full of melodrama, and in some places they also contain elements of ...