{"product_id":"2940150668096","title":"25 Wilkie Collins-Woman in White Moonstone No Name Armadale House to Let Haunted Hotel Evil Genius Law and the Lady After Dark Black Robe Hide Man and Wife Seek Dead Secret Alive No Thoroughfare Frozen Deep Queen of Hearts Basil Blind Love Legacy of Cain","description":"English novelist, credited with writing the first mystery.\u003cbr\u003eWilkie was immensely popular in his time, and wrote 25 novels and over 50 short stories. His most successful works were The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone. He was one of the first, and is still one of the greatest, writers of mystery fiction, and has been much imitated over the years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003eThe Woman in White (1860)\u003cbr\u003eThe Moonstone (1868)\u003cbr\u003eNo Name (1862)\u003cbr\u003eArmadale (1866)\u003cbr\u003eA House to Let (1858)\u003cbr\u003eThe Haunted Hotel (1878)\u003cbr\u003eThe Evil Genius (1886)\u003cbr\u003eThe Law and the Lady (1875)\u003cbr\u003eAfter Dark (1856)\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Robe (1881)\u003cbr\u003eThe Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1857)\u003cbr\u003eLittle Novels (1887)\u003cbr\u003eNo Thoroughfare (1867)\u003cbr\u003eThe Frozen Deep (1874)\u003cbr\u003eHide and Seek (1854)\u003cbr\u003eThe Dead Alive (1873)\u003cbr\u003eThe Queen of Hearts (1859)\u003cbr\u003eMan and Wife (1870)\u003cbr\u003eBasil (1852)\u003cbr\u003ePoor Miss Finch (1872)\u003cbr\u003eBlind Love (1889)\u003cbr\u003eThe Legacy of Cain (1889)\u003cbr\u003eHeart and Science (1883)\u003cbr\u003eI Say No (1884)\u003cbr\u003eThe Fallen Leaves (1879)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Woman in White-\u003cbr\u003eIt follows the story of two sisters living in Victorian England with their selfish, uninterested uncle as their guardian. Marian Halcombe is the elder of the two sisters, and a remarkably ugly woman, but with courage, strength and resourcefulness in abundance. The younger, her beautiful half-sister Laura Fairlie, is engaged to a rich man by the name of Sir Percival Glyde.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Moonstone-\u003cbr\u003eThe Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre, including a crime being investigated by talented amateurs who happen to be present when it is committed, and two police officers who exemplify respectively the 'Scotland Yard bungler' and the skilled, professional detective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo Name-\u003cbr\u003eA novel that revolves around the issue of illegitimacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArmadale-\u003cbr\u003eUnusual and convoluted mystery. Viewed by the Clap-trap morality of the day, this may be a very daring book. Judged by the Christian morality which is of all time, it is simply a book daring enough to speak the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Robe-\u003cbr\u003eA high ranking Catholic priest schemes to recover land considered Church property.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1857)-\u003cbr\u003ebased on Dickens's and Collins's walking tour in the north of England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBasil-\u003cbr\u003eA tale of criminality, almost revolting from its domestic horrors.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"ANEBook Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102111645936,"sku":"2940150668096","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150668096_p0.jpg?v=1763751401","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150668096","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}