Cases Worth Looking At

Cases Worth Looking At is found within My Miscellanies, which contained 25 essays drawn from his work for the magazines Household Words and All The Year Round. Cases Worth Looking At contains the three essays Memoirs of an Adopted Son, The Poisoned Meal and The Cauldron of Oil. My Miscellanies was published in 1863.

TOWARD the beginning of the eighteenth century there stood on a rock in the sea, near a fishing village on the coast of Brittany, a ruined tower with a very bad reputation. No mortal was known to have inhabited it within the memory of living man.

If you think Victorian literature is quaint, you haven t read anything by Wilkie Collins. Often considered the father of the English detective novel, Collins has thrilled readers with suspenseful gothic tales such as The Woman in White and The Moonstone.