{"product_id":"the-diary-of-anne-rodway","title":"The Diary of Anne Rodway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen a poor young seamstress refuses to accept that her dearest friend's death was mere misadventure, she turns amateur investigator in one of the earliest and most affecting detective tales in English.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold entirely through Anne's own journal, \u003cem\u003eThe Diary of Anne Rodway\u003c\/em\u003e first appeared in Charles Dickens's \u003cem\u003eHousehold Words\u003c\/em\u003e in 1856. Its heroine, a working-class needlewoman, pieces together the events behind Mary Mallinson's death from a single fragment of torn cloth, pursuing justice where the authorities see none. Wilkie Collins, later hailed as the father of the English sensation novel and a pioneer of detective fiction, here gave readers a female investigator of rare tenderness and resolve, decades before the genre took shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wilkie Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Detective Fiction Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.16d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781447405795","brand":"Detective Fiction Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53321697034538,"sku":"9781447405795","price":25.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1022\/4553\/1946\/files\/img_ebd5e1cf-3ed9-421d-af95-2c9a235609d5.jpg?v=1793053084","url":"https:\/\/delvanta.shop\/products\/the-diary-of-anne-rodway","provider":"Whitmore Lane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}