The dead secret

AI Rating: 1/10 - Wilkie Collins' 1857 sensation novel "The Dead Secret" is a Victorian mystery centered on a deaf servant guarding a family secret in a remote Cornish house, involving deception, inheritance, and melodrama. It features classic gothic tropes, class tensions, and plot twists with no progressive political messaging, social justice advocacy, identity politics, or diversity/inclusion themes. Disability is portrayed sympathetically but not as modern activism; storytelling drives the narrative entirely. Zero "woke" elements.