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Miss or Mrs.?

Wilkie Collins

First published 1875
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

"Natalie Graybrook is engaged to the much older Richard Turlington whom she detests but who needs her fortune of £40,000 to avoid bankruptcy. She is, however, in love with her cousin Launcelot Linzie. They marry secretly, though Natalie remains with her father Sir Joseph, to avoid a charge of abduction against Launcelot. Turlington, who is sole executor of Sir Joseph's will, learns of the secret marriage and arranges to have Sir Joseph murdered by an accomplice, Wildfang. The plot fails and Turlington is himself killed when his own revolver misfires."—<a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.wilkie-collins.info/books_frozen_deep.htm">Wilkie Collins Information Pages</a>

Originally published as 'Miss or Mrs? A Christmas Story in Twelve Scenes' in The Graphic Christmas Number, 25 December 1871.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1875 Cover After Dark and Other Stories Harper & Brothers Omnibus 301