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...
Man kills wife, stepson, self on south side Elsewhere, woman shot to death, another's body found in fire By JAMES H. BURNETT III of the Journal Sentinel staff Wednesday, July 24, 2002 A young man's fear of his abusive stepfather...
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Man shot wife 11/08/2001: 549 words, approx. 2 pages
Man shot wife, complaint says Attempted murder charges filed in domestic dispute By LISA SINK AND DAVE SHEELEY of the Journal Sentinel staff Thursday, November 8, 2001 A 65-year-old Elm Grove man was arrested and charged with attempted homicide...
LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A man who had been declared dead after a canoeing accident but in fact survived hid in his home for three years before his arrest this week, his wife told British newspapers on Saturday. Anne Darwin described how her...
LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A man who "returned from the dead" after apparently being lost at sea in a canoeing accident five years ago was charged by police on Saturday with obtaining money by deception and making a false declaration to get a...
