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...
Dead or Alive 10/26/2006: 579 words, approx. 2 pages
37 862 Dead or Alive Es gab sine Zeit, in der Actionkino aus Hongkong in Form von verstümmelten Kung-Fu-Filmen in die hiesigen Kinos gelangte: exotische FlieÃbandware als atemlose Folge martialischer Kämpfe, deren Akrobatik visuell mit wilden ReiÃschwenks und hektischen Zooms aufgepeppt wurde...
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Dead or alive 06/01/2000: 700 words, approx. 2 pages
As the British media were shouting themselves hoarse over the deaths of two white farmers in Zimbabwe in mid-April, 12 people (mostly students) were being shot dead in the Gambia by the security forces. And not a word was printed by the British media...
