Collins also braved the moral censure of the Victorian age by keeping two women (and their households) while marrying neither. His later, and at the time rather sensational, novels include The New Magdalen (1873) and The Law and The Lady (1875). Eliot called 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. Dickens produced and acted in two melodramas written by Collins, The Lighthouse (1855) and The Frozen Deep (1857).Collins is best remembered for his novels, particularly The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868), which T. When Rachel Verinder's birthday present - the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond - is stolen at her party, suspicion and the diamond's mysterious curse seem set to ruin everyone and everything she. Heilbrun (Introduction) 3.91 88,564 ratings5,432 reviews Want to read Kindle 3.99 Rate this book Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genrethe detective mystery. In 1846, having spent five years in the tea business, he was entered to read for the bar at Lincoln's Inn, where he gained the legal knowledge that was to give him much material for his writing.From the early fifties, he was a friend of Charles Dickens, acting with him, contributing to Household Words, travelling with him on the Continent. Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the eldest son of the landscape painter William Collins.
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