Armadale - 6. Band

Two men share a name. One will murder the other. In this pioneering sensation novel, Wilkie Collins traces the devastating consequences across generations: two distant cousins, both named Allan Armadale, inherit a legacy of violence and secret guilt. When the sons grow to manhood, their fates become intertwined with the mystery of that original killing, as dark truths surface and identities blur in the shadowy world of Victorian England. Collins, master of the form that would evolve into detective fiction, builds tension through careful revelation, leading readers through elegant country houses and spa towns toward a conclusion as unsettling as it is inevitable. This is crime fiction's dark ancestor, where the greatest mystery is not whodunit, but what the living must do to escape the sins of their namesakes.