Wilkie Collins / Author
The New Magdalen
Grace and Mercy are very different women, but are both caught up in the war between Germany and France. When Grace is hit by a loose shell, Mercy seizes the chance to escape her past as a fallen...
The Haunted Hotel
Is there no explanation of the mystery of "The Haunted Hotel"? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice--or does it?
The Moonstone
Franklin Blake is in love with Rachel Verinder. The gem he gives her, the moonstone, disappears, and the police cannot solve the crime. Eventually, Rachel spurns Franklin, and he goes abroad in an...
The Law and the Lady
The Law and the Lady builds on that tradition by introducing one of English literature's earliest women detectives, Valeria Woodville, who investigates the murder of her husband's first wife in the...
The Frozen Deep
A volume of two stories in which a young girl dreads the return of a spurned lover, and the interest of two bankers is aroused by a man carrying a large cash-box around town.
A Rogue's Life
Frank Softly fell in love with the daughter of a counterfeiter--the beautiful Alicia, Dr. Dulcifer's daughter--and before he could stop it he'd somehow gotten mixed up in the forgery himself.
Antonina
Ancient Rome, AD 408: Young Antonia had the misfortune to live in interesting times -- the days when mighty Rome was brought low by the terror of the Goths.
Basil
An upstanding young man falls in love with a beautiful daughter of a tradesman--but cannot marry her, not because of their inequality in class, but because she is sexually immoral. BASIL includes an...
I Say No
Mysteries, frequently incorporating supernatural elements, they anticipate more modern elements, such as the witty British detective, the female sleuth, and the canine detective.
Jezebel's Daughter
Rumoured to have been responsible for her husband's downfall, Madame Fontaine becomes known as Jezebel, and her sweet-tempered daughter is known as Jezebel's daughter.
Miss or Mrs.?
Fast-paced and psychologically absorbing, each novella proceeds through a series of dramatic scenes to a climax that is literally explosive.
My Lady's Money
A drawing-room story that involves a robbery, the Jockey Club and it's society, the betting-ring, and marriage plans.
No Name
Wilkie Collins tells the story of Magdalen Vanstone. When she and her sister are revealed as illegitimate, they are denied their inheritance and excluded from society. Her sister bows to her fate...
The Woman in White
Walter Hartright, a drawing instructor falls in love with Laura, but she is betrothed to someone else, and he must therefore leave Limmeridge. Before he goes, he tells Marian about his encounter...
Poor Miss Finch
This book concerns a blind woman in love with an epileptic whose treatments, bizarrely, turn him blue. Her eyesight temporarily restored, she must choose between her blue lover and his healthy twin...
The Legacy of Cain
When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her...
The Guilty River
This haunting tale concerns two men who vie for the same lovely lass.
The Evil Genius
"The Evil Genius" is the story of divorce and remarriage, unfaithfulness, but above all, children battered helplessly on the storms of their parents' passions.
The Queen of Hearts
A collection of ten stories by Collins. Framing these tales is the situation of a young lady staying with three old brothers in Wales. The son of one of the brothers is in love with her, but he is...