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...
GLOBE WEST 3 / NATURE DIARY You're raking leaves or untangling a string of holiday lights when you see it - a matted clump of leaves high up in the crook of a maple tree: It's a peregrine falcon nest! You drop everything...
Gardening is said to be the most popular leisure pastime in America. This statistic includes lawn mowing, which might not fit your definition of gardening -- or leisure. But most garden work is healthful outdoor play that gives you delicious food and beautiful surroundings....
