This book originally published in a serial periodical, and I read it with marks indicating each weekly installment. This was such a good idea, because I got to see how brilliant of an author Wilkie Collins was at crafting his story to his audience: he kept his readers enthralled waiting for the next installments with his readable writing and his great cliffhangers. The plot was good. I liked the inclusion of insanity to the plot. The denouement I thought just began too early and the wrap up was a little disappointingly easy--the problem about how to deal with Sir Percival ended too easily, the clue of Sir Percival's inheritance and his overall motivation was interesting but not actually important to the mystery, and Count Fosco revealed all, which I thought may have been a little unrealistic (but I'm still undecided on that).

I enjoyed comparing this with Lady Audley's Secret--for the record, I thought Collin's writing style more fun but Braddon's plot less holey.