Books like The Woman in White
A drawing master walking to London at midnight meets a woman dressed all in white who has escaped from an asylum, and the encounter draws him into a conspiracy surrounding the heiress he has fallen for.
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The Moonstone
A sacred Indian diamond left to a young English heiress vanishes from her Yorkshire house on the night of her eighteenth birthday, and the people who were there tell the story of the hunt for it in turn.
The Silent Companions
Newly widowed and pregnant, Elsie Bainbridge arrives at her late husband's crumbling country estate, where a locked garret holds a painted wooden figure that looks uncannily like her.
My Cousin Rachel
A young Englishman becomes obsessed with his beautiful cousin Rachel, unable to determine whether she's an innocent widow or the woman who murdered his guardian.
The Séance
A young woman who once staged seances to console her grieving mother inherits Wraxford Hall, a decaying Suffolk mansion where a family vanished years before, along with a bundle of papers about what happened there.
Uncle Silas
After her father's death, young Maud Ruthyn is sent to live as the ward of her uncle Silas, a reclusive man still shadowed by an old scandal, in his decaying house in Derbyshire.
Fingersmith
In 1860s London, Sue Trinder, a young thief, is placed as maid to a rich, sheltered heiress, Maud Lilly, as part of a con to steal her fortune, and nothing goes as planned.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A family on the moors is threatened by a spectral hound, and Holmes uncovers the very human evil behind the legend.
Rebecca
A shy young woman marries the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter and moves to his estate, Manderley, where the memory of his first wife, Rebecca, and the housekeeper devoted to her, still rule.
A Fatal Inversion
In the hot summer of 1976 a group of young people drifted through months at Wyvis Hall, a Suffolk country house one of them had inherited. Ten years later the bones of a woman and a child are dug up in its pet cemetery.
The Forgotten Garden
In 1913 a four-year-old girl is found alone on a ship docked in Australia with nothing but a small suitcase and a book of fairy tales; decades later her granddaughter Cassandra inherits a cottage on the Cornish coast and follows the trail back to where the girl came from.
Dracula
A Transylvanian count moves to London to spread his undead curse, and a band of Victorian friends must destroy him before he destroys England.
The Wench Is Dead
Laid up in an Oxford hospital with a bleeding ulcer, Chief Inspector Morse reads an old account of the 1859 murder of Joanna Franks on the Oxford Canal, for which two boatmen were hanged, and sets out to solve it again from his bed.