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...
On Memorial Day, Joseph Talbert had a crab feast in his room at Washington Hospital Center, a gift from his sister, who had driven to Annapolis and back to brighten his holiday with the best seafood she could find. As Talbert ate the...
WASHINGTON - In a single century, man has gone from the sands of Kitty Hawk, N.C., to the powdery surface of the moon. It has been an era that has eased human migration, transformed the world economy, and allowed nations, as well as...
