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    A Plot in Private Life: Brother Griffith's Story of A Plot in Private Life
    A Plot in Private Life: Brother Griffith's Story of A Plot in Private Life
    A Plot in Private Life: Brother Griffith's Story of A Plot in Private Life
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    A Plot in Private Life: Brother Griffith's Story of A Plot in Private Life

    Written by Wilkie Collins

    Narrated by Bobbie Frohman

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    About this audiobook

    Originally published as 'A Marriage Tragedy' in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February 1858.

    William, the narrator and faithful servant to rich widow, Mrs Norcross, tells the story of her unhappy second marriage to James Smith. A detective lawyer's clerk, Mr Dark, both confirms Smith's bigamous remarriage and, following his disappearance, proves Mrs Norcross and William innocent of murder. Dark also recovers jewellery stolen by the maidservant and establishes her guilt. William's amiable relationship with the experienced detective foreshadows that between Betteredge and Cuff in The Moonstone (1868).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlcazar Audio Works
    Release dateJan 1, 2013
    ISBN9781939444264
    A Plot in Private Life: Brother Griffith's Story of A Plot in Private Life
    Author

    Wilkie Collins

    William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular painter. Collins himself demonstrated some artistic talent and had a painting hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1849, but his real passion was for writing. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand but hated it. He left and read law as a student at Lincoln's Inn but already his writing career was flowering. His first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850. In 1851, the same year that he was called to the bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame rests on his best known works, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he wrote over thirty books, as well as numerous short stories, articles and plays. He was a hugely popular writer in his lifetime. Collins was an unconventional individual: he never married but established long term liaisons with two separate households. He died in 1889.

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    • 4/5
      I love Wilkie Collins and this was a good short story. But I found the narrator distracting.