Cordelia J. Winthrop – författare

E. Phillips Oppenheim, the master of the international-intrigue novel, sets his clean machine running from a cold Norfolk inn. A man vanishes between the fish and the entree, leaving behind a hundred thousand pounds and an undelivered mission from an American millionaire - and every guest who watched him go has a private reason for what happened next. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 45 full-page color plates.

Jennette Lee, who taught English at Smith College, works a quiet miracle of attention. A Greek fruit-seller in Chicago - a man the whole hurrying city has walked past a thousand times without seeing - becomes the one person who notices, and acts, when a wealthy family's child goes missing. Gentle, humane, and sharply observed, this edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.

Wilkie Collins gave the detective work to a woman in 1875, three decades before anyone else thought to. On her honeymoon, Valeria learns that her new husband was once tried for poisoning his first wife and released on the peculiarly Scottish verdict of 'Not Proven' - and resolves to uncover what a court would not. Her investigation leads to one of fiction's most unforgettable informants: the legless, malicious, brilliant Miserrimus Dexter. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates.

Vicente Blasco Ibanez - jailed some thirty times as a republican agitator in Valencia - wrote the novel that sold in the millions, made Rudolph Valentino a star, and gave the twentieth century the phrase it still reaches for in disaster. An Argentine landowner's family is riven by the Great War: two daughters married into France and Germany, cousins facing each other in opposing armies, and the patriarch's fortune paying for both sides. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates, Durer's horsemen and Nevinson's machine-gunners among them.

Jacob's Room is the novel in which Virginia Woolf abandoned the old machinery of fiction for good. Jacob Flanders is never once described; he is assembled instead from what others happen to notice - his mother's letters, a room in Cambridge, a stranger on a bus, sheep's jaws on a beach, an empty pair of shoes. The Great War, too, arrives without ever being named. Hand-printed by Woolf on the Hogarth Press she ran from her dining room, this edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 31 full-page color plates.

Against the real and bloody backdrop of the 1672 lynching of the De Witt brothers, Alexandre Dumas sets a quieter obsession: a mild gentleman of Dordrecht determined to breed the first true black tulip and claim the hundred-thousand-guilder prize. Love, envy, and a scheming neighbor conspire to send him from his greenhouse to a prison cell. A perfect miniature of Dumas's art, this edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 40 full-page color plates of the Dutch masters, Bosschaert's tulips among them.