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...
A case that smells a lot like environmental racism is unfolding around the historic black town of Thoroughfare, Va. Located an hour's drive outside of Washington, this pre-Civil War enclave could be wiped out by two monstrous developments: the proposed Old Dominion Race Track...
Byline: Taft Wireback 1. The original section of Wendover Avenue (shown on a 1943 map) ran from Church Street to Northwood Street. It was a major east-west street, but only a shadow of the road it would become. 2. 1950s: Another section...
