Author
Wilkie Collins
8 Jan 1824 – 23 Sep 1889
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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkie_Collins) on Wikipedia.
Bibliography
Books
30 books
Country House Murders
1989
Thomas Godfrey, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Robert Barr, Emma Orczy, R. Austin Freeman, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, Freeman Wills Crofts, John Dickson Carr, Cecil Day-Lewis, P. G. Wodehouse, J. I. M. Stewart, Philip MacDonald, Ethel Lina White, Christianna Brand, Cyril Hare, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James, James G. Miles, Thomas Godfrey
The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
1998
Otto Penzler, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Melville Davisson Post, Ernest William Hornung, Edith Wharton, Jack London, O. Henry, Jacques Futrelle, Robert Barr, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Frederick Irving Anderson, Vincent Starrett, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Burke, Georges Simenon, Logan Clendening, James Gould Cozzens, Lord Dunsany, John Collier, Ben Ray Redman, Robert Bloch, Barry Perowne, James Thurber, C. P. Donnel, Harry Kemelman, Ogden Nash, Stanley Ellin, A. A. Milne, Ellery Queen, Evan Hunter, Mickey Spillane, Jack Ritchie, Patricia Highsmith, Edward D. Hoch, Isaac Asimov, John Gardner, Stephen King, Clark Howard, Ruth Rendell, Lawrence Block, Stephen Greenleaf, James Ellroy, Sara Paretsky, Harlan Ellison, Charles McCarry, Elmore Leonard
The Frozen Deep
1800
Wilkie Collins, George du Maurier, James Mahoney, Charles Dickens, Richard Brydges Beechey, John Everett Millais, J. Mahony
