Wilkie Collins
Armadale
eBook
( July 21, 2019)
The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins each named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the daddy of the alternative (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by using the assassin inside the shape of a letter to take delivery of to his baby son while he grows up. Many years are omitted. The son, mistreated at home, runs faraway from his mom and stepfather, and takes up a wandering life beneath the assumed name of Ozias Midwinter.