TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- "TOO ABSURDLY REPULSIVE" -- A DISTASTE FOR MATRIMONIAL SAUCE -- PARALLEL WORLDS -- PART II -- TEXT AND IMAGE TOGETHER -- THE FACE OF THE ADVERSARY IN THE NOVELS OF WILKIE COLLINS -- PART III -- MENTAL STATES -- READING FACES -- QUESTIONING MORAL INHERITANCE IN THE LEGACY OF CAIN -- HABITUATION AND INCARCERATION -- HEART AND SCIENCE AND VIVISECTION'S THREAT TO WOMEN -- PART IV -- THE SCOTCH VERDICT AND IRREGULAR MARRIAGES -- COLLINS ON INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT -- THE DANGEROUS BROTHER -- PART V -- "TWIN-SISTERS" AND "THEATRICAL THIEVES" -- SENSATION DRAMA? COLLINS'S STAGE ADAPTATION OF THE WOMAN IN WHITE -- DETECTING BURIED SECRETS -- AFTERWORD -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.