Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels, plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing.
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The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband's past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is concealing his true identity from her. Soon she must endure an even greater shock: the revelation that her husband has been on trial for poisoning his first wife.
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone (Radio Performance)
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Wilkie Collins' position as the father of English detective fiction was firmly established with the publication of The Moonstone in 1868 and The Woman in White eight years earlier. Sergeant Cuff, one of the first fictional detectives, sets out to solve the mystery of the missing Moonstone.
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