Collins, Wilkie
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A new edition of Wilkie Collins's 1879 novel, The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice, a penny-dreadful style crime mystery from the early maste
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r of the genre.
Wilkie Collins (1824 –1889) was an English novelist and playwright best known for The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1855), and The Moonstone (1868). Collins is considered by many to be the inventor of the modern English detective novel and was an early writer of "suspense" or "thriller" fiction. His works were and remain popular with both critics and the public, and he regularly is ranked among the most significant and influential English language novelists of all time.
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