In addition to the precedents in The Man with a Load of Mischief (1981; please see separate entry), this novel has literary precedents to which its characters allude. The first is Wilkie Collins's classic mystery novel The Woman in White (1859), the title character of which Jury recalls when he first sees Jane Holdsworth. Jane, wearing a white raincoat in the fog, seems mysterious to Jury, and she remains.....
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