Hide and Seek was Wilkie Collins' third published novel. It is the first of his novels involving the solution of a mystery, the elements of which are clearer to the reader than to the novel's characters. Suspense is created from the reader's...
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round....
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round....
Wilkie Collins's fifth novel, The Dead Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her illegitimate daughter and the recovery of a hidden secret. Set in rugged Cornwall, the novel blends romance with Gothic drama, and in characterization...
When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her husband. Will her vices be passed on to this seemingly sweet...
Wilkie Collins's The Fallen Leaves was first published in 1879. Amelius Goldenheart is deported from his Utopian community because of a relationship with an older woman.A Story of Life for All Ages. William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September...
The Dead Secret was Wilkie Collins' fourth published novel. The secret of the title is the parentage of the heroine, Rosamund Treverton, who has been passed off as the daughter of the wealthy former actress Mrs Treverton of Porthgenna Tower, but is...
La Dama de Blanco, es una novela epistolar escrita por Wilkie Collins en 1859, serializada de 1859 a 1860 y publicada por primera vez en forma de libro ese �ltimo a�o. En, La Dama de blanco, el lector se ve arrast...
Written 150 years ago, never published, and presumed lost for nearly a century, Wilkie Collinss earliest novel now appears in print for the first time. Ioláni is a sensational romance--a tale of terror and suspense, bravery and betrayal, set agains...