Hide and Seek was Wilkie Collins\' third published novel.
It falls into two parts: the history of "Madonna" Grice Matthew Grice\'s discovery of he.
The novel has a convoluted plot, in common with many of Collins\' works.
Suspense is created from the reader\'s uncertainty as to which characters will find out the truth, when and how.
It is the first of his novels involving the solution of a mystery, the elements of which are clearer to the reader than to the novel\'s characters.
Hide and Seek was Wilkie Collins\' third published novel