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About the Author

A close friend and collaborator with Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins cornered the Victorian market in literary sensationalism. A pioneer of detective fiction, he produced such novels as The Woman in White which were huge hits with the reading public. Bohemian in his attitudes and unorthodox in his sexual habits, Collins was a flamboyant member of the Victorian Establishment, renowned as much for his personal life as for his extremely popular writing.