A wonderful modern edition of the classic novel by Wilkie Collins. 
 
Wikipedia summarizes: The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Many years are skipped over. The son, mistreated at home, runs away from his mother and stepfather, and takes up a wandering life under the assumed name of Ozias Midwinter. He becomes a companion to the other Allan Armadale. But Ozias is constantly haunted by feeling that he might harm Allan. Allan has a mysterious dream involving three characters. This dream fills Ozias with foreboding, its three scenes becoming fulfilled in the course of the novel. 
 
Allan inherits estates at Thorpe-Ambrose in Norfolk after the mysterious death of three of the family. He falls in love with the sixteen-year-old daughter of Major Milroy, to whom he has rented a cottage. This love affair is for a period thwarted by the machinations of Miss Milroy's governess, Lydia Gwilt, and by the fact that the Major, an inventor, has imposed a chastity belt on his daughter. 
 
Lydia, is the villain of the novel. Originally Allan's nurse as a baby, she is a fortune-hunter and, it turns out, a murderess. She marries Midwinter, having discovered his name is the same as Allan's. She plots to murder Allan and, since she is now "Mrs. Armadale," to impersonate his widow. Allan escapes the attempt on his life and returns to England. Lydia's plans are thus foiled. She makes one more attempt to murder Allan but in the end she is undone by her conscience and kills herself. Allan marries Miss Milroy; Midwinter, still his best friend, becomes (what else?) a writer. 
 
In the end, the novel teaches that the sins of the fathers are not visited on the children, and the son of the murderer can turn out good.