Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for *The Woman in White* (1859) and *The Moonstone* (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to the family of a painter, William Collins, in London, he grew up in Italy and France, learning French and Italian. He began work as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, appeared in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend and mentor. Some of Collins's works appeared first in Dickens's journals *All the Year Round* and *Household Words* and they collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins achieved financial stability and an international following with his best known works in the 1860s, but began suffering from gout. Taking opium for the pain grew into an addiction. In the 1870s and 1880s his writing quality declined with his health. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage: he split his time between Caroline Graves and his common-law wife Martha Rudd, with whom he had three children. **Source**: Wilkie Collins on Wikipedia.
Books
A House to Let
1858
ISBN 9781406556025
The Woman in White
2006
ISBN 9781460402160
English country house murders
1988
ISBN 9780816150892
The Greatest Classics Ever Written
2018
ISBN 9788026895428
The Frozen Deep
1857
ISBN 9781425059040
Armadale
1866
ISBN 9780140434118
The Moonstone
1868
ISBN 9780316321723
Country house murders
ISBN 9780948397592
The Spine-Chilling Tales for Halloween
2023
Great tales of terror and the supernatural
1944
ISBN 9780679601289
British Mysteries Boxed Set: 350+ Thriller Novels, Murder Mysteries & True Crime Stories
2017
ISBN 9788026879121
Mysteries for Christmas: 48 Puzzling Murder Mysteries & Supernatural Thrillers: What the Shepherd Saw, The Ghosts at Grantley, The Mystery of Room Five, ... of Cernogratz, A Terrible Christmas Eve...
2017
ISBN 9788027301317
TRICK OR TREAT Boxed Set: 200+ Eerie Tales from the Greatest Storytellers
2018
ISBN 9788026897989
Reader's Digest Great Detective Stories
1998
ISBN 9780276424182
THIRST FOR BLOOD - Ultimate Collection for Halloween
2019
THE GOLDEN BOOK OF WORLD'S GREATEST MYSTERIES – 60+ Whodunit Tales & Detective Stories (Ultimate Anthology)
2017
ISBN 9788075832634
The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins' Mysterious Intrigue
2018
ISBN 9798281505642
The Haunted House
2020
ISBN 9783849658199
Edward Gorey's Haunted Looking Glass
1959
ISBN 9780517448984
THE BIG BOOK OF SPOOKY TALES - Horror Classics Anthology
2017
ISBN 9788075831842
The Unusual Suspects
2019
Murder Under The Mistletoe - Ultimate Christmas Murder Mystery Collection
2020
Horror Anthology
2022
The Ultimate Halloween Treat
2022