Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was Charles Dickens's closest friend, his collaborator, and his only rival in the art of plotting. Where Dickens excelled in character and atmosphere, Collins was the supreme architect of suspense, constructing narratives of clockwork precision that kept Victorian England on the edge of its seat. This author hub collects 2 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Woman in White.
Start with The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, ranked #132 in the Canon Compass list.
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Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White: identity theft, madness, and conspiracy in Victorian England. The novel that invented the thriller genre.
Wilkie Collins' groundbreaking detective novel traces a stolen Indian diamond through Victorian England's secrets.