This book contains an adapted text of the popular novel "The Woman in White" (1865) by the outstanding English writer Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), one of the founders of the detective genre. The events take place in the 19th century. in England next to Esquire Fairley's estate on the outskirts of London, where Walter Garthright got a place as a drawing teacher. He not only managed to solve the crime of Percival Glide, committed for the sake of money, but also to save his beloved and put an end to the story of the mysterious woman in white.
One day in the fall a woman calls at the New York office of Nat Marley, licensed private investigator, to ask him to find Patrick, her missing husband. Marley's enquiries take him to the financial district of Wall Street and an investment company whose returns are too good to be true. Then the police find a body in the trunk of a car – Patrick's car. Whose is the body and where is Patrick?
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