![]() Wilkie Collins played with my intellect the whole way through by throwing out clues as to what was really happening and then dissolving them to keep you guessing. ![]() The story is well thought out and goes in directions I never anticipated in my wildest dreams. While Collins’s other great mystery, The Moonstone, has been called the finest detective story ever written, it was this work that so gripped the imagination of the world that Wilkie Collins had his own tombstone inscribed “Author of The Woman in White. The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins is stupendous and I am at a loss of where to start. A gripping tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity, Collins’s psychological thriller has never been out of print since its publication in 1860. Generally considered the first English sensation novel, The Woman in White features the remarkable heroine Marian Halcombe and her sleuthing partner, drawing-master Walter Hartright, pitted against the diabolical team of Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde. Secrets, mistaken identities, surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an unorthodox villain made this mystery thriller an instant success when it first appeared in 1860, and it has continued to enthrall ever since.įrom the hero’s foreboding before his arrival at Limmeridge House to the nefarious plot concerning the beautiful Laura, the breathtaking tension of Collins’s narrative created a new literary genre of suspense fiction, which profoundly shaped the course of English popular writing. ![]() ![]() Young Walter Hartright meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the 19th century. ![]()
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