The English author William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) wrote intricately plotted novels of sensational intrigue which helped establish the conventions of modern detective fiction. Wilkie Collins was born in London on Jan. 8, 1824, the son of a successful...
"Make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em wait." This adage of Wilkie Collins epitomizes his success as the leading sensation novelist of Victorian England. Combining expert plotting with carefully described settings, Collins's novels define the excitement...
Although best known to modern readers as the author of The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868)—which T. S. Eliot and Dorothy Sayers have called the best English detective story—Wilkie Collins made contributions more substantial tha...
Byline: NIKI SHISLER It's only 11.30 but my doorbell has just rung for the sixth time this morning. It's not that I'm super-popular or anything; the vast majority of visitors to my home aren't even coming to see me. No, it's my youngest...
It's only 11.30 but my doorbell has just rung for the sixth time this morning. It's not that I'm super-popular or anything; the vast majority of visitors to my home aren't even coming to see me. No, it's my youngest child, Felix, seven, who...
