Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), born William Wilkie Collins, was an English novelist and playwright associated with sensation and detective fiction. His best-known novels include The Woman in White and The Moonstone. A friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens, he used multiple narrators, testimony and documents to construct and gradually reveal mysteries. His suspenseful plots also examine family relationships, property, law and social position in nineteenth-century England.