The complete online text of Basil by Wilkie Collins.

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...

This week's look at what's new, mysterious or bountiful in the produce aisles. If you were living on the planet Mars in the 1970s perhaps you did not know that pesto -- a sauce made of basil, pine nuts, olive oil and Parmesan...

Is it possible to have too much of this flavorful herb? We asked two Southern gardeners for their thoughts. It's the end of summer. The kids head back to school, the nights get the first hint of autumn, and the basil keeps arriving...

Some 5,500 pounds of basil grown in Mexico and sold in the United States has been recalled because of fears it may be infected with salmonella, a spokesman for the importer said Thursday.The basil was imported from a farm in Mexico's southern Baja California region...

Some 5,500 pounds (2,495 kilograms) of basil grown in Mexico and sold in the United States has been recalled because of fears it may be infected with salmonella, a spokesman for the importer said Thursday.The basil was imported from a farm in Mexico's southern Baja...