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...
It was back in the mid-1970s that nations all around the world began a slow, steady turn to the Right -- toward markets and individual choice, away from central planning and social control. Now a Labor government is back in power in the United...
Finding monikers for new communities is a task difficult to put into words. Jolly Old England Nature and history, too Imagination needed Imitation is supposed to be the sincerest form of flattery. But when it comes to naming subdivisions, developers definitely value...
The absence of electricity is what drew Hallett and Linda Douville to No Name Key in 1990.They watched what development had done to Key West and figured No Name would be the last of the Florida Keys to fall. But as they were enjoying their...
The Social Insurance Agency said Monday about 5.24 million of the roughly 50 million public pension accounts on which it has failed to keep proper records have had no entries of the names of their holders. The finding resulted from the agency's...
