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1 day ago by Mish

Written in 1859 and 1868, the Woman in White and the Moonstone by Wilkie Collins are considered to be among the first English detective novels and the forerunners for modern mystery and suspense. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes didn’t appear until about twenty years later. Collins used many of ...

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9 days ago by Kelsey

Today I finished The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins. This novel was incredibly domestic and not at all a mystery. There was no Secret to discover, merely a man in love with two women. Biographically this novel is interesting as Collins never married, but lived with two seperate women throughout his a ...

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11 days ago by Alan

First published 149 years ago this compelling novel has the all of the ingredients of a serious and fascinating mystery. I did not know anything about Wilkie Collins until Dan Simmons wrote a novel based on the Charles Dicken’s novel about Edward Drood. Simmons used Wilkie Collins, a friend and comp ...

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13 days ago by Mystic Medusa

Cult Victorian novel about a stolen Moonstone with magical properties & the ROOM looks Cancerian, non? Alaskan Folk Music C.D. from 1973 The Moonstone is the Cancerian birthstone i.m.o. Some say it is the Ruby – these things are always so debatable but I am sticking with Moonstone. One of its other ...

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17 days ago by Gaurav Parikh

My Wife is back…after a week with her parents !…I picked her up this morning and when she got off while I parked,had to remind her we stay on the fourth floor ! And as if in great welcome,our House Clocks in the Living Room and Bathroom stopped working !..I told her they were actually protesting…..M ...

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20 days ago by lost_spook

For john_elliott, who requested (in rhyme, no less) that Rose Tyler should meet Sergeant Cuff (from Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone. If you haven't read it, go and find a copy immediately, along with the equally wonderful The Woman in White.) A Rose and A Thief (Narrative of George Morhelm, guest at H ...

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21 days ago by JOSÉ JAVIER ABASOLO

LA NOVELA: El 9 de junio de 1865, un choque ferroviario en Staplehurst provoca una tragedia de dimensiones dantescas: 10 muertos, más de 40 heridos, y un paisaje desolador de alaridos, dolor y sangre. Uno de los supervivientes, que viajaba en primera clase con su amante y la madre de ésta, se aprest ...

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23 days ago by Edward Headington

I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong. Source: Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White

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27 days ago by ms12

Shout of For My Daily Lit-if you are a reader this is a great Service-http://www.dailylit.com/ Announcing Next DPG Lunch: June 8, 2009 From: DailyLit Date: June 8, 2009 9:01:40 AM GMT-04:00 To: marshal.m1@gmail.com Subject: The Moonstone (002 of 238) Reply-To: books@dailylit.com ...

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28 days ago by lozza26

Book twelve and already some old friends are back in the fold. Perhaps this is a sign that my reading tastes are too narrow. Perhaps I’m just running with a few themes at the moment. In any case, as with Mr Pip and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins pop in to say hi, in ...

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